Euthyphro’s dilemma asks, “is it right because God wills it, or God wills it because it is right?” The first branch believes in an external locus of control, that success and failure result from factors beyond our control. The second branch believes that the self and its actions control the outcome of events in their life. If both statements are true, it becomes a vicious cycle where the snake is eating its own tail. A feedback loop based on inferiority.
The social model of disability is another derivative of this conundrum. Is society and its exclusionary nature disabling people? If so, are people then disabling themselves by not ‘fixing’ themselves to join? Then comes the argument that they are socially handicapping themselves by being stuck within this box by either their inferiority complex or by social rejection.
But everyone is disabled. There is no baseline to compare too, only an assumption of the normal body. Imagine to yourself, what do you picture as the normal body? Not a healthy one necessarily though most would make that assumption. Do you see someone with long or short hair, muscles or scrawny; did you forget to envision eyebrows or ears on them? Small things like having 20/20 vision or doing math or having cartilage in your joints. We only categorize and stone the ones with extreme degeneracies though we preach that everyone is unique.
Being even slightly disabled, you see the inadequacies of the world, you feel them. Like when you are sick and you miss your usual sense of smell. Or if you need to pull out a stool to reach cabinets. It is yourself or society or both or neither disabling you. It is a truly individual experience.
Society attempts to implement some civil designs and the crazy thing is that when the world becomes more accessible, the more convenient it is for more able bodies. Those bubble pads at the end of a sidewalk for the visually impaired to know when they are walking off into the street. Text to speech extensions for people with dyslexia who struggle to read. It is the difference between radical or gradual change. If society wants us to be productive; here you go! All at the price of supporting its disenfranchised. Shouldn’t be hard right?
Unruly Bodies 
Your writing definitely made me think in a different way. when you said, “But everyone is disabled. There is no baseline to compare too, only an assumption of the normal body.” It made me completely think differently. We were taught that the people who you can see physically disabled are the only disabled ones, but there are so many different things that make us disabled.
This post is super interesting and well written. The idea of Euthyphro’s dilemma and the snake eating its own tail… at first I was like wait no there can’t be no right answer, its capitalism, that’s the only answer. But when I read further I understood what you meant, and I think you make a good point. Your last question made me think . Yes they want more productive bodies, but not at the price of the degradation of the able-bodied, cis, hetero ideal. It reminds me of exclusion of gay and trans people in the military- killing innocent people is important, but being homophobic is more important! We can’t let them in, if we let them in and call them normal, everything will fall.
I am curious about your opinion on the weaknesses of the social model of disability. I see in this post you consider everyone is “disabled” in a way (short, scrawny, etc). I see also that you believe more accessibility is good for everyone, able bodied or not. A popular criticism for the social model is that it’s seen as unrealistic to account for every disability. What are your thoughts on this criticism? Do you agree or disagree with it?