Should amputees be offended by prosthetics?

[Courtesy Flush]

I was browsing blogs today when I saw an entry on jeffandjanice.com regarding Google's policy of not allowing their ads to appear on websites for people with disabilities. Am I wrong, or is this really crappy?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. How Would Amputees Walk Without Prosthetics?

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[Courtesy Flush]

2. If they lost an arm, they'd walk just fine :)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. what if they lost a leg?

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[Cobalt Violet]

4. No amputees are not offended by prosthetics.

[Courtesy Flush]

5. Well yeah, but my point was

Why should Google feel obligated to protect disabled people from information about disabilities?

Edit: I visited the site in question. It's not an informative site, but the question still applies.

[KG]

6. this is a google policy?

this sounds fishy, ya might want to dbl chk with google on this.

[Courtesy Flush]

11. I doubt they'd discuss it with me. Confidentiality, and all eom

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7. Apparently this is a real-time conflict

I visited the site again, and it's being updated.

Gotta go. I've got to watch my DVDs so I can send them back to netflix

[Thor_MN]

8. There are deaf people who are offended by cochlear implants...

so I would guess that it's possible.

Then again, the guy that I saw on the TV show was born deaf, so that might not be a perfect analogy. I think his reasoning was that his genetics caused him to be deaf and he was what he was - why mess with it? I remember that he was very much against his child (also born deaf) getting implants. The closest that I could relate to it was immigrant parents wanting their children to retain the culture of the "Old Country."

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9. I've never understood that

I guess you'd have to be deaf to really understand it. It's like paraplegics not wanting to walk.

But who am to judge?

[Thor_MN]

10. I thought the same.

I'll form a viable opinion once I'm faced with the situation - until then, I'm officially on the fence and listening to the people who are on both sides...