Choose your pain.

Originally Posted by Hydelloon

You thief!!

I would also take blindness. If you are blind, you loose your connections to objects, however if you are deaf, you loose your connections to people. I would rather be able to talk and communicate than see.

I think people automatically answer that they would rather be deaf without really thinking about the implications.

I disagree, with any disability you can learn to over come it to some extent. I'd rather not be able to hear than not be able to see. The reason is I know what it is like to be nearly blind. It makes functioning as an individual so much harder when you can't see, for example with out my glasses I can't drive my car, safely walk cross the street by my self, use a computer, read a book, etc. If it were my hearing that was impaired I wouldn't be able to listen to music, talk on a phone, etc. I think it is alot easier to learn to overcome a lack of hearing than it is to learn to over come a lack of sight.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Hydelloon

To be truthful, I am keen on Alice and Elixer's comments so far because they have experienced either a deficit in hearing or sight. Everyone else in the thread, myself included, is just speculating what such a world would be like. Understandably, each poster adds insight and thoughts to the thread, but I've found Alice and Elixer to be the most compelling. This is not said to lessen the worth of some other posts, afterall I am one of those posters, but just an observation I made.

ps: I added a Helen Keller quote above. Being both deaf and blind, I think her words have great weight in this argument.

I have a similar situation as Alice (my vision got 50% worse each year for almost 10 years) and I have the opposite opinion. I am a visual learner so seeing is very important to me. This is really all a matter of opinion, not really an argument or debate.

There's nowhere I can't reach.