I do realise some of the stuff paralympians can do is really impressive.
I think it’s down to how I was brought up; i was taught not to mention or appear to notice a person’s disability because that would be rude. So having a whole Olympics counter to that feels weird.
Also, pretty much every other situation where a legless body is flying/flipping in the air is a legitimate cause for alarm.
I would wish to examine the appropriate resources to expend in each instance, without approving or denying all expenditures. Is that a difficult concept?
My personal opinion is that our current expenditures towards “disabled” veterans are monstrously abused and unsustainable. But that is not a topic that many people are willing to discuss - and likely beyond the scope of this thread.
And if someone gets in a car accident while speeding, drunk, not wearing a seatbelt, and uninsured?
I think it’s a pretty rare case where someone would expect absurd accommodation for a disability of the kind you mention. But I do recall the case of a someone who wanted a variance in the PGA rules that requires golfers to stand unassisted and carry their own bags throughout a game. It’s been a while, I don’t remember all the details, but the individual’s request was denied, at least initially, they could walk and stand, but apparently not for the entire game. Those rules have always applied in the game, although it is a silly game part of it for some reason entails a degree of physical endurance requiring fairly able legs. Despite the fact that I couldn’t sink a putt in a 2 foot wide hole from more than 10 feet away, if I could compete in PGA golf I doubt my own knees would hold up. From time to time we are going to run into the not so clearly defined line between reasonable and unreasonable accommodations.
In the converse situations able legged people have been derided for participating in wheelchair races. It was astounding to some people to see these competitors stand up at the end of the race and pick up their wheelchairs and carry them away. They argued that they competed according to the rules, but even in a wheelchair race someone with fully working legs can gain an advantage through the additional leverage they can apply to their upper body through their legs.
I think these borderline cases would not be much of an issue if not for the traditionally allowed discrimination against people who had some physical disability. Not even just the legal discrimination or lack of accommodation, but merely the socially acceptable derision of those who could be a little slower at boarding a bus.