It's funny how egoistic people can be. Whatever they wish to present as their social front, it seems that at their heart of hearts, just about everyone (with the usual bell curve exceptions) is self-centered. Now let's consider a common expression: If I can do (insert activity), why can't you? If that doesn't sound self-centered, I don't know what does.
Basically, saying something like that assumes that everyone should be essentially the same as the speaker, since the speaker's perfectly capable of doing something and thus everyone else ought to. Not...necessarily true. For example, I can't reasonably ask a blind person to just see...simply because I can, right? And just 'coz I can and want to, I can't rightly ask others to do the same because they might not share my sentiments.
What does that leave us, though? The admission of hypocrisy in projecting the public face? Or is it the self-centered nature of people blinding them to the possibility of alternatives...
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The assumption is that any form of egoism, or self-centeredness is a bad thing, hence the rant. Actually, what most people dislike is either excessive egoism or excessive lack of egoism.
In this case, it is obvious a person is blind (dark glasses, white rod, ya). On the other hand, people who are hard-of-hearing are not so obvious. You may not expect a hard-of-hearing person to be able to hear once you actually know they are hard of hearing. However, in your daily interaction, you assume most people you interact with are not hard-of-hearing, so you speak to them in your normal volume and would be surprised that they cannot hear you.
Of course, if you find that the majority of people in the world, who hear each other fine, cannot hear you, you are alerted to the fact that your normal volume is actually quite soft. If most people told you that you are shouting, you realise that your normal volume is quite high.
One can point out a rant about how people are self-centered in expecting others to be as capable as them, is sort of inverse, given that one is expecting people to be unexpecting of others being as capable of them...and getting upset that people are not holding up to one's standards.
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