Last Updated on January 28, 2022 by FERS Disability Attorney
Does it help to make them? Do we take comfort in judging the relative plusses and minuses in making comparisons — as in, X has A, B and C, but I have, in addition, D and E, and therefore I am more fortunate that X is. Or, is it a comparison of one’s conditions, as in: “Boy, at least I don’t have X like Lisa does”, or “At least I am not in Y’s situation”?
To the extent that comparisons remind us of that which we are blessed with, they allow for a certain level of utilitarian value. But there is a negative side to it: Of jealousy engendered by comparison, or of discontent resulting from making one. Rousseau, of course, makes that point throughout his “Social Contract” analysis, of the purity of man’s intentions in that fictional state of “nature” that we were once in, but where society’s accretions of materialism created the artificial emotional response of discontent and jealousy. But compared to what?
It is important to make the fair and correlative comparisons which are relevant — as in “apples to apples” and not “apples to oranges”. For, it is the uniqueness of each entity, object or situation to be compared with the singularity of another that makes for a proper comparison.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition such that the medical condition prevents the Federal or Postal employee from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s Federal or Postal job, it is inadvisable to compare one’s case to somebody else’s. For, the proper comparison is not to evaluate one’s medical condition and the severity of one’s medical condition to that of another person’s medical condition; rather, the proper comparison in a Federal Disability Retirement case is to compare one’s medical condition to the essential elements of one’s position.
Thus, comparisons made must always take into account the relevant connections which relate not just in terms of similarities, but as is the case in Federal Disability Retirement Law — in what the law allows for and considers significant.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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