How am I insulting someone's abilities ? He's making a blanket statement that mobile phones are easily destroyed, which is bullshit. Sure, a person may be clumsy and often drop their phone, but that's not a problem with the phone itself. The world is full of small, fragile things. Should we start rubber-padding everything ? The same can be said for, e.g. glasses, should no one wear glasses anymore because they are 'easily destroyed' ?
People with physical restrictions, muscle deterioration, neural impairment can have difficulty with fine motor control, and drop things. Implying that someone is 'clumsy' is implicitly judging their physical ability.
Additionally, modern smartphones are fragile (glass fronts, water damage) and discreet (wallet sized). They are broken more often than old dumbphones, and get left behind/dropped into inaccessible places.
> The world is full of small, fragile things.
Those things usually don't cost hundreds of dollars AND are an everyday item. You don't carry your fine china to the shops in case you have the need for a cup of tea, and watches are water/shock resistant (& are physically tethered to you).
Who are you arguing against? No one said that people shouldn't have phones; just that their cost/risk benefit of phones has convinced them to stick beneath a certain price point.
> Implying that someone is 'clumsy' is implicitly judging their physical ability.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. If someone has difficulty with fine motor control that's called 'clumsy'. How is that 'judging'?
All I'm saying that if you're constantly dropping your phone that is a problem with you and not the phone. This is as dumb as someone in a wheelchair saying we shouldn't make bicycles anymore because they can't use them.
> Those things usually don't cost hundreds of dollars AND are an everyday item.
So I guess you don't wear glasses ?
> No one said that people shouldn't have phones; just that their cost/risk benefit of phones has convinced them to stick beneath a certain price point.
That's not what was said at all. What I am arguing against is the following statement: "Except it's really easy to accidentally destroy or lose a phone."
They are making a general statement implying that people accidentally destroy or lose their phone all the time, which is simply not true. It may be true for them, but that's not what they are saying.
