... down a hole.

...Alright, I'm back, everything's cool, the cops are gone.  Now, where was I? Oh yes, I just rented the movie "Blind" with Julianne Moore.  I enjoyed it.  Then I did some searches and found that the National Federation for The Blind had issue with the film.  I sent them an email.  It was a stinger:

To: Whom It May Concern, or not,

The NFB's response to the movie "Blind" is obviously a naive, emotionally charged and shortsighted (pun unintended) view.  It is a glaring example of the knee-jerk, defensive, reactionary judgments that plague individuals and groups of all types, and, ironically enough, is EXACTLY the kind of flawed human nature the movie is illuminating.

The NFB claims that the movie portrays "the blind" poorly.  Is it not obvious that the movie is not portraying “the blind" at all?  The movie IS portraying a hard-hitting pandemic that decimates human moral en masse, uncovering the vulgarities of human nature when it is tested in the extreme.  If you do not see this, you are sorely missing the point.  The movie is NOT an attempt to characterize an integrated subgroup of society that happens to suffer from a disability.

This is BLATANLTY addressed in the movie itself when the newly blind optometrist is shocked to find out that one of the “immoral” extortionists within the quarantine has been blind since birth.  He professes, "you are supposed to have empathy," to which another "bad guy" shoots back, "the man’s blind, that doesn't make him good or bad, just blind."  In essence, this quote upholds the stance of the NFB exactly.  “The blind” are in fact like everyone else, they may be good OR bad, they simply go about it without sight.

Nevertheless, suggesting a devastating and shockingly immediate pandemic of blindness among the sighted populace--and the widespread panic and moral degradation that may likely follow--is intended as a commentary on "the blind" as a social group is just stupidity.  It is the equivalent of saying that showing the immediate behavior of millions of people whom all at once have their legs eaten off by flesh-eating bacteria is intended as a characterization of "the paraplegic."

It would be prudent for the civil rights activists at the NFB to ensure objections are backed by s, so as not to alienate themselves from other human intellects around the would that may otherwise empathize with aspects of their cause. 

I feel your public reaction is either a deceptive attempt at manipulating naive public sentiment or evidence of mental confusion; condemnation and guilt propaganda are 'traps for fools' and will ultimately fail to result in anything but confusion and irrelevance in the long run.  Honesty and illumination should be the intent of righteousness and concern.  I hope you can at least see that.

Regards,
            J.P.F.