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Being blind doesn't make you less, it makes you more. Loss one sense the others are amplified, well proven.
Besides those with sight use your eyes to pass judgement on people, consciously or subconsciously it matters not.
For example, someone who looks like they crawled out from underneath a rock the immediate response is "eeek get away from me you freak". On the other hand someone dressed to the nines is oftentimes seen as highly favourable even if they are nastier than a rattlesnake.
Or someone who has track marks down their arms, even if those marks are decades old, will forever bear the stigma of druggie as will someone who has suicide scars be so "marked" in the eyes of fellow man. A person who acts gay but doesn't sound gay is well damned to some. People of different religions & skin tones are likewise judged negatively.
The list is endless of what judgement people pass just upon sight, first glance, without ever taking those few minutes to actually know that person.
To put it in perspective there was an old car commercial, years ago, where a guy who looked like a homeless bum walked into a dealership. He was widely ignored. An't it hilarious how the "homeless bum", once attention was given to him, could pay for his rather highly expensive car outright in cold hard cash.
Blind people don't have sight and so they can't pass snap judgement. Unless coached by their friends / family beforehand they generally lack the ability to make assumptions. Most actually have to get to know someone, even if it is just saying hello, before they can pass anything resembling judgement.
And so, spiritually, they are better. They will likely be reborn, particularly those born blind or whom loose their sight naturally [I won't broach the concept mentioned of intentional blindness by one's own hand], on a higher level than people with sight. Karma, after all.
Blindness can be viewed as a sacrifice made to understand better. Just as how a born mute might have been reborn to learn what it is like to live life without a voice [a slave owner for example, reborn as a mute, what better karma exists than that].
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