Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140425203121/@comment-25073873-20180217183347

2601:44:201:59DB:892F:8AAD:7042:105B wrote: There are plenty of blind archers in real life. Quite frankly, I find this conversation incredibly ableist and dismissive towards actual visually impaired individuals. You are making assumptions about the abilities of non-sighted individuals with no experiense as an individual without sight, and it comes off as incredibly dismissive. Legal blindness =/= physiological blindness. Get that straight.

Those famous "blind archers" in the olympics have severe visual impairment, not total lack of sight. They can still see their targets. They are not actually non sighted individuals.

Next, regarding a completely blind person learning to shoot, it is possible, yes. Like how a trick shooter can train himself/herself to shoot with a blindfold on. But this is against a still, fixed target, not a moving one. It's a lot of practice, yes. A lot of effort, yes. And they would need a spotter and to know the exact distance.

Now, if you can find a blind sniper war hero who took shots in the heat of battle without sight, maybe the argument would be more convincing. But until we have bionic implants and enhancments, I doubt that's gonna happen in anywhere outside of comics and fiction (which bother to explain how it's done).