The typical problem with people who hold views like Zeke's is that they most often think these views are right for other people and other people's loved ones. But when faced with personally applicable consequences of their own views, they find extraordinary ways to rationalize exempting themselves and their loved ones.
Alexander Graham Bell, for instance, was quite the eugenicist, who believed that people of substandard abilities shouldn't be allowed to breed. But his mother was deaf and he himself married a deaf woman, and IIRC he had four children with her. Very weird, complex mix of views in this guy.
I'm deaf, BTW. Without my hearing aids, I hear little to nothing except the low rumble of traffic.
AFAIC kind of like celebrities who campaign against "global warming" and smugly congratulate themselves on driving Priuses in their off time, chide us regular citizens that we should all "reduce our carbon footprints", and then they themselves own private jets (which they use to travel to global warming conferences), two-three houses, plus at least two more cars that are extreme gas guzzlers. Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio (who I happen to think is very hot
) come to mind as good illustrations of this "Do as I say, not as I do" phenomenon.
Basically, these people want others to live by these values they espouse, but think they're doing their part just by championing the values. Actually walking the walk doesn't much enter into it.
As long as you're rich enough, or well-connected enough, you can rationalize (aka weasel) your way out of any personal consequences arising from your most "deeply held" beliefs, while at the same time convincing others that it's just fine that you weasel.
IMO for someone who has a relative with a disease like CP to write an op-ed like Zeke's makes it *even more* appalling.
