Poll: If you had to lose one sense, what would it be?

[Zenn3k]

Probably smell. That seems to be the sense I use the least.

Most of the way taste works is directly tied to smell. For example, eat an Apple and smell an Orange. The Apple will taste like an orange.

I'd probably go with Taste, since taste really only decides if something is salty, sweet, or bitter.

 

[Light 086]

Taste for me, cause I can live without it and live healthier. I really hate the taste of cooked peppers, it makes me gag.

Smell would be useful in survival situations like fire, carbon monoxide, rotten food, and zombies =P

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

-Being blind would change my life completely (i couldnt do my job, i couldnt see my family and friends,i couldnt enjoy most of my hobbies...)
-Being deaf would keep me from enjoying music, it would limit my survival skills and i couldnt comunicate with my parents (they live in another country and i usually talk to them on the phone)
-Without touch you cant tell if somethings hurting you or not. Besides, some of the best things in the world involve touching, heh.
-I love eating. Sooooooo...

...sorry, smell.I love having you around but you pulled out the shortest straw.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

If I lost my sense of taste I'd probably lose weight since I love food lol so that would only be a good thing. xD

 

[Laser Priest]

I'd give up my sixth sense, actually.

EDIT: And to everyone talking about how they like food and would give up smell, Smell contributes just as much to flavor as taste does.

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

I find it kind of funny that more people picked losing touch over sight. Without touch, you lose all bodily awareness.

OT: Smell, definitely. Is it wierd that I've thought about this before?

 

[Telekinesis]

I was gonna vote for smell, but then I realized it's somewhat important to me... I love to smell people I love, it has a comforting feel to it. So I went with taste.

 

[GundamSentinel]

People have way more senses than just those five, you know.

Ok, ok, out of those five I'd pick taste. Smell is a large part of your taste experience anyways, I don't need taste.

 

[TheHaunted]

I would go with touch.
I love tasting, smelling, hearing, and seeing. I already have experience with the loss of touch when my nerves were being stretched out, so it is the one sense I could do without.

 

[Bekn]

Touch. No touchy means no pain. I'd be like a super hero.

Barring that, smell. Smell is way over-rated. It's only really useful function is making food taste better.

Bear in mind that without being able to feel things you would die very easily. You wouldn't be able to tell when you're body has touched something, if you're too hot or cold, where your tongue is in your mouth, all sorts of things.

You could end up running yourself a bath, scolding yourself and giving yourself serious burns without even realising. Not being able to feel anything, aside from the superhero perk, would suck so bad.

EDIT: I vote smell because it's the least valuable to me.

 

[cruzermac619]

Obviously smell. It's the most unnecessary out of the bunch. And I enjoy food too much to give up taste. Even though without the sense of smell you won't be able to taste some foods.

 

[sb666]

Get rid of feeling, become sex god.