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Choose One: Lose Sight or Lose Hearing

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Sight because then I can just become a blind swordsman, wandering the globe in search of purpose and meaning. Cutting down the unjust and those worthy of my blade.
 
not psycho said:
Following up on my last post, as I suspected deaf people can still "feel" music.

http://www.webmd.com/news/20011128/deaf-people-can-feel-music

Turn up the volume and go with the vibrations. Beethoven could still play piano while deaf.
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soundscream said:
A more interesting question would be taste or touch.

My ranking of the senses

Sight > Hearing > Smell > Touch > Taste
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Not really that interesting. Its as obvious as the OP.

Touch vs. Hearing is the only interesting matchup of the senses.

Sight >Touch|Hearing >Taste >> Smell (ignoring smell and taste are linked in reality).
 
Unknown One said:
Sight>touch>hearing>smell>taste.

I think people underestimate touch. You can't feel anything, that's dangerous.
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I would definitely put touch above hearing. Losing any of the senses is difficult though. I lost 80% of my sense of smell about four years ago following a virus (and in consequence a good deal of my sense of taste too) and I still get really down about.
 
Rather lose my hearing. This isnt even really debateable.

For those who say sight, try walking around with a blindfold on for a week and continue your life and job, then try something to take away your hearing for a week.

See how well you function.
 
Hearing. I love music, but sight lets you experience a hell of a lot more. I need to be able to read, make art, watch movies, see nature.
 
Really no contest.
I had a similar discussion with a workmate and she said she would rather be blind than loose both legs. I was facepalming so hard and described to her everything i could do in a wheelchair and everything i could not do when blind. She got shaky but held to her decission. Good luck going to your dance class blind ...

I hear music all day, alot at work and love it and still sight is several tiers over hearing. You can function as a normal human without hearing while blindnes puts you really in a total different life.

Hearing vs both legs is probably harder
 
I think living life would be easier without hearing than without sight.

You can still do a lot of the things you'd do normally, like post on neogaf ;). And yeah, the lost of music would really blow, but at least you could still perceive beauty (and still text).
 
I'd lose hearing. I believe it must be much easier to cope becoming deaf than blind.

I could learn lip-reading and sign-language, and still write and read, for communication. I could still enjoy film and videogames, even if they're missing a crucial aspect. Games with heavy visual novel elements for instance, should still be good. I could still read and travel with greater ease than if I was blind.

So yeah. Easy choice.
 
I don't trust anyone enough to rely on them to be my eyes.

Going deaf actually has practical benefits though. As in you no-longer have to listen to the bullshit conversations going on around you and can get to sleep at night without having to put up with the assholes the floor below you who play dance music until 3am and the bitch next door who has a toy dog.
 
Hearing.

Not even worth thinking about. If you lose sight you might as well be dead. You can literally do nothing.
 
I'm deaf. Deaf is nothing really, just you can't hear but will able to hear with hearing aids
Not sure about sight. I don't think there is any aids to see. Just walking stick or dog help you.
 
70% of your information comes through sight so, yeah, I'll play the odds and lose hearing.

That fact I was told last week at a blind museum (sort of a blind simulator) by a legally blind person.
 
sarcastor said:
if you went blind, YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO READ THIS!!!!!

you wouldn't be on the internet, browsing shit and watching porn. You couldn't drive. Imagine trying to cook, or fly to another country. Or shit, try getting to the nearest 7-11. Yes blind people have managed to do most of this on their own, but I'm sure it took them a long time.
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I'm barely able to do most of those things right now anyway. Music is one of the only things I have left.
 
This is tough.
As a lover and creator of music, losing my hearing terrifies me more than it probably should.

I'm leaning toward losing sight...
Loss of music is...unimaginable.

I know I'm being completely irrational...
 
Lose my sight. Communication is important and not very many people know ASL (or any other sign languages for that matter). Also, music is my life. I can listen to audio books and read with braille if listening to movies doesn't turn out to be my thing.
 
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