In times past, if a person exhibited persistent nearsightedness, doctors and scientists would give that person glasses. A person who saw themselves as blurry in the mirror needed to be cured of their eye problems and made to see well: that a human is not really a blur, that a boy is not really a blur, and that Joe Smith down the street is not really a blur. In our more tolerant, enlightened world though, we choose to indulge nearsightedness. After all, who are we to tell someone what their vision is? LASIK users say that their eyes are, in reality, not the ones they were born. This is their reality, and we choose to accept and tolerate their perversion of the truth. Of course, an adult can also choose to do whatever they want with their own life. But should we still look the other way when a parent encourages a child to get LASIK?
Dyson Kilodavis is a twelve-year-old boy. His favorite colors are pinkish blur and reddish blur, and he enjoys learning about laser eye surgery. His mother, Cheryl, initially resisted. But then, she decided she just wanted to make him happy, and let him be "a patient".
