Disability is not an edge case that happens to someone else. It is a statistical certainty built into biology and time. Unless a life ends early, bodies age, systems degrade, injuries accumulate, genetics express themselves, and cognition changes. This is not moral failure or personal deficiency. It is physics. Entropy at the level of lived experience looks like things breaking, slowing, hurting, or no longer working as they once did. Everyone passes through this territory in one form or another.
Policy often behaves as if disability is rare, suspicious, or exceptional. That assumption is backwards. Frailty is universal and shared, even if unevenly distributed in time and intensity. Treating support as something to be rationed against presumed dishonesty or moral weakness misreads the basic structure of human life. Most people do not fabricate suffering. Some will game any system, but designing policy around that minority guarantees harm to the majority.
A humane system starts from inevitability, not exception. It assumes ageing, illness, and breakdown as normal conditions of a human lifespan, not deviations to be penalised. Compassion is not an indulgence or a luxury value. It is the only rational response to a population that will, without exception, encounter vulnerability. A society that disavows this is not being efficient or realistic. It is denying the most predictable fact it will ever have to govern.
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