Poll: That old dillema! Blind or Deaf?

Alex Cowan

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As a musician, this is a pretty deep dilemma for me, and honestly I'm undecided. Yes, deafness is the logical choice in order to diminish the effect on your normal life, but considering that the majority of my life is devoted to music, what would the cost of that be? Yes, Beethoven was deaf, but not everyone is as gifted as he was...
 

Sam Warrior

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SidingWithTheEnemy said:
Deaf! You can still feel the vibration...
And people who are yelling at you don't matter that much anymore.

Still it is very very very very serious illness/genetic defect/whateverthing and I rather have some sort of tyroid cancer or something.
Just a bit of advice from a biologist (I know this is hypothetical anyway) but don't ever pick cancer.

OP: deaf, humans rely to much on sight to lose it randomly, though mine isn't great anyway.
 

Ti0k0

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Zachary Amaranth said:
Ti0k0 said:
Yeah, yeah, I had that coming :p
I decided not to go further into that, but of course blind people are not lepers. What I meant was that blind people need more adaptions to continue their normal life and will more easily become socially excluded than deaf people.
Not really true.

Sorry if I'm taking this a little more seriously than you, but I can chuck a stone and hit a school for the deaf. There is a HUGE deaf community here, and I bet about half would either be offended or mock you for the relative ease you ascribe to it.

And I mean no offense, it's just...I'm looking at this from a slightly less specious point of view.

TrilbyWill said:
fair enough. but it would be a lot more difficult if i can't see.
Way harder to lip read, yes.
You don't have to apologize, it's a forum, right! :) I was never my intention to mock any disability, my apologies if that is what you thought I did by creating this poll. I really don't think too lightly of either disabilty, it's about the decision between the two.

I know there is a huge deaf community in the world, but I think being blind would have a much greater effect on my social life than being deaf would.
I wouldn't be able to read anymore (even IF I would learn Braille, still I would only be able to read books that were translated into Braille) And what about this forum or Internet itself! Also, I'm a big movie fan, and I wouldn't want to give that up. (I'm an even bigger music fan, but therein lies the dillema for me personally)
 

Drakmorg

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Deaf easily. My hearing is already sub-par, and I can just turn subtitles on for when I want to watch shows or play video games.
 

Vilcus

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Deaf, seeing as I love video games, and it'd be pretty hard to play video games if I were blind. Though if it were a choice, I'd pick being mute over either of those two any day.
 

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Deaf, I rely on my sense of sight more than my sense of hearing, plus this way I'd still be able to see my fiancee at our wedding and enjoy more of the forms of entertainment that I take for granted than I would if I were blind.

I just get the feeling I'd miss my hearing less than I would my sight.
 

Master_of_Oldskool

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Deaf. There's just too much in my life that depends on my sight. I'd miss listening to my favorite bands and all, but then, I'd also get to stop hearing people talk. I think that's a fair trade-off.
 

MBergman

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Hmm, so watch porn or listen to porn...

Never actually thought about this, it's freaking hard. Deaf I would lose music, and I really don't wanna lose music be it the one I make myself or the one I listen to. But blind I would also be a 10 on the suckiness scale. I have several spots where I can just go and sit and look, because the scenery is so beautiful (no it's not a strip joint). I really don't want to lose that either.

I can't choose, I'm just gonna hope neither happens to me!
 

Scarim Coral

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Deaf, sure I will miss the sound of music and voices but sight is far more important to me.
Look at it this way, I already watch subtitle anime so if I'm deaf I will only miss the sound of the character voices but I still get to see it. if I'm blind, it would be impossible to listen to anime (sure I could somehow take lesson to speak and understand Japanese but there is no audio descriptive animes).
 

OldRat

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Deaf. It's not really much of a contest and not much of a thinky-thought. Humans are sight-oriented and more or less -dependent creatures. Any normal bloke can go through their life just fine without hearing (I'm in no way making a slight of deafness, I'm simply stating that being deaf hinders one's basic functions immeasurably less than being blind), but you life will become incredibly difficult and vulnerable if you're blind.
Being deaf fucking sucks, but being blind will make you more or less incapable of normal life without many compromises. I think that's all that needs to be said about that.

And, just to repeat, I'm in no way saying that deaf people have an easy life or won't be tremendously affected by their disability. It's just that a blind person will lose the very sight our entire society and species is built on. We're visual creatures first and foremost, after all.
 

Phasmal

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I am already hard of hearing and its not out of the question that I could go deaf in my lifetime.
So deaf.

I will be learning to sign soon anyway, partly because thats what I want to do (work with deaf kids) and partly because just in case.
 

Jamieson 90

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I imagine I would be effected both either badly but being deaf seems to be the lesser of two evils.
 

klaynexas3

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blind. i love hearing. sounds reach out to me more so than sight. while i love reading and certain tasks that may require my eyes, i love music too much more to be able to lose that. besides, if i'm blind i can be like Dare Devil! or Cortez from the leet world. Cortez is a lot more badass anyway.