remoak,
I wasn't trying to be incompassionate, and I can sympathize with anybody who gets slapped in the face with a fish as big as this. I'm going to be honest now - it's situations like these that get up my back so to speak... a very good friend of mine is a long distance runner, absolutely incredible level of fitness, but he was failed on his initial due to his eyesight. Not because it was so bad, but because the difference between his eyes was so many dioptres apart. It wasn't a great deal, but enough to prohibit a referral.
No, what makes me angry is the system that prevents a perfectly healthy (and capable) individual from pursuing a dream.
On the contrary, I completely agree with you, and that's exactly my point - nobody can predict these things.