I can totally understand an artificial leg being more useful than an arm, since a whole lot of what you want an arm for is the hand, with the fingers and thumb, which prosthetics of the day couldn't do AT ALL. Whereas for the leg, if you can have a thing that will support you and that you can get to move underneath you, you're pretty much set.

Generally they seem to have considered it crushingly unjust whenever anything didn’t go 100% their own way This characterizes a fair percentage of the people I meet, of *any* political stripe.