Choose your pain.

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I was paraphrasing neuroscientist. In his work, he interviewed patience who became blnd and deaf in their adult lives. At first, I felt the same way about hearing, but the literature was quite compelling. The interviews made it very clear that being blind restricted contact with humans much more than being deaf,

I stand by my original statement. I can't articulate my thoughts as well as my professors but I was immeadiately pursuaded upon hearing and reading the text. Coming from a visual person, this is a very strong statement. I find a world of silence to be much more terrifying than a world of darkness.

I pulled a quote from Helen Keller

Spoiler:

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems
of deafness are deeper and more complex,
If not more important, than those of blindness.
Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it
means the loss of the most vital stimulus - the
sound of the voice that brings language, sets
thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual
company of man.

- Helen Keller

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Gumby

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.

I agree with you that it is a matter of opinion. Hopefully I didn't come off as argumentative or presumptuous. Its interesting you have a similar situation as Alice but ended up with an opposite opinion.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?