Ears or eyes?

[Nahotnoj]

if you had to lose one of your senses, your hearing or your sight, you had to lose one, which would you chose, and why?

i personally would have to go with hearing. although i love music and it would be hard to live without it, i've realised i use my eyes for so much more that i enjoy, and for things like walking and so forth.

what would you chose?

[Moser]

Deffinatly hearing since I don't talk to much anyways. Besides, anything that can be heard can be written down, well most of it. And it would be much easier to live alone if you lost your hearing, then if you lost your vision.

[Uuugggg]

Really, our sight is simply the most detailed and sensitive organs. Keep your sight!

[Battlecruiser]

Yeah, I would definately rather lose hearing than sight. Imagine a life where everything is black. For all you know, your next step might be to a pitfall. But hearing isn't that important. I mean, you can survive easily.

[Frattimonde]

Sight...

As I see that hearing Is much more important, and as I belive...

If you have a powerful mind, you don´t need eyes to see.

[TheBB]

Actually, you sense of touch and feeling is more detailed than your eyesight. Believe it or not. :)

[Aqo]

well... eather way my life will be sadder cuz all I do all day is listening to music and playing the computer... but I'll stay with sight, as said b4 it's being used more.

[Cygnus]

I must say I'd rather lose my sight, if it came to that. Sure life might be difficult for someone who is blind but atleast you can hear and thus speak properly. I'd be able too communicate with my friends and loved ones still even without my eyesight. Plus there are ways to get around without your eyes, but is there alternate ways to replace hearing? Perhaps eventually technology will allow us to do that, but as of now I'd rather be a blind communicating human being than a deaf man who can sadly only see the world...

EDIT: And I know for a fact that people who are deaf can communicate I have met them and talked to them before but personally I'd still rather lose my sight.

[gediminas]

Hearing, I guess...
Probably because I can still watch anime with subtitles in case I'm deaf!.. Bad joke... :shiftyr:

[Radical_Edward]

Ed needs sight in order to type and look at the computer.

[Thereisnocowlevel]

Hearing.
No sight = no computer.

[Lordaeron]

Hearring. You can learn sign language to talk to people. And sense you've already mastered much of the english language you can still talk to people. You will not be able to listen to music which would be the only bad thing. But with losing your hearing you begin to be able to read lips. :) With sight you can still enjoy natures beauty except it will be multiplied because you without hearing your mind pays more attention to detail with the remaining senses.

[Xx_bender_xX]

Definetly hearing. If i couldnt hear I could ignore annoying people and have a valid exuse:D


But seriously i couldnt live without seeing. i love TV and games too much. And for all you guys, think of this. Without eyesight you would never see a naked woman ever again:o

[Demosthene5]

Without eyesight you would never see a naked woman ever again Haha, how many naked women (in reality) could you have seen? arent you like, 13? did you walk in on your mom taking a shower or something? hahaaha i joke.
I would keep sight, because he raises an excellent point with the la femme figure. Theres also comp games.

[GrassDragon]

I have to agree with Cygnus here, I would rather lose my sight than hearing. You can learn to get by without sight; I know you guys are complaining about computer and typing and stuff, they DO have braille keyboards and there is a game called NetHack that actually supports braille keyboards (meaning you could play it even while blind). So if that's one, there must be other text style games you could play. And computers can read to you.

[Demosthene5]

text style games better than starcraft? Then again starcraft has great music and sound,
but it wouldn't make sense if you couldn't see what was going on...
whatever floats your boat i guess.

Compared to reading by sight, braille is wierd(er). They are bumps that you feel that represent letters that you see that represent sounds that you hear that represent ideas that you think or percieve. Communication is unreliable as is, and having to learn braille would add another step to the already messy process.

[Battlecruiser]

We use our sight for much more things than hearing. What is one important thing that you use your hearing for other than communicating with other people, which can be easily done with sight. You use sight for almost everything. Have you noticed that blind people need much more help than deaf people? I mean, you can't even cross the street without having someone hold your hands. If you had sight, you can just walk across when there are no cars. The only thing is you won't hear any horns, but if your careful, it should never even come to that anyway.

[Darkslayer633]

definatly hearing because then you can still do important stuff like watch t.v, play video games, sports to a point, and do things on computer.

[bluemicrobyte]

if you had to lose one of your senses, your hearing or your sight, you had to lose one, which would you chose, and why?

i personally would have to go with hearing. although i love music and it would be hard to live without it, i've realised i use my eyes for so much more that i enjoy, and for things like walking and so forth.

what would you chose?definately hearing. Though I love sounds, If I didnt have eyes I couldn't make the sounds come out of my comptuer in the first place......not to mention the loss of warcraft, starcraft, battlecraft, supercraft, megacraft, blizzcraft, and computercraft. (oh and diablo)

[Scauthra]

I would lose my hearing, even though I agree with what Cygnus said, I would much rather be able to see things then only hear them. In either case, I would feel teased by only hearing something, or teased by seeing something and not enjoying it's unique sound. I would still be able to enjoy playing games, even though the sound is gone, and I can still read a book, and that doesint require sound.

I know there is technology for blind people to read and write and use computers, (I use to liste to an online radio show where some of the radio hosts were blind, and they would talk about thier equipment). But overall, I want to be able to see things, even though without the sense of sound, I would be very depressed.

[GiaDragoness]

If i was forced to sacrifice hearing or sight, i would choose hearing. Although i would no longer be able to listen to some of the wonderfull sounds of evanessance, or video games, it would be better than losing the ability to see all of God's creation. Sight is more usefull on a normal average basis than sound. I could still listen to music by sensing vibration like Beahtoven, (I just KNOW i mispelled that one >.<), and i would'nt have to listen to the words of fools that i have to put up with every day. I think losing hearing might make a good of a gift almost as much as it would be a curse. Of course, that depends on where and how you live. In any case, the internet is my only way out of this town in the middle of nowhere. If i could'nt talk to you guys like this, I would literally go insane. I'm not kidding. I'm constantly stressed out enough as it is.

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[JenJen]

If i were to lose one i'd choose my hearing. I mean i love music and i love to play my french horn and listen to my cds but when it comes down to it the things that matter most are so much greater when you can see them. when you think of the people you love of course you want to hear "i love you" but isnt the feeling so much greater when you can look into there eyes and get lost? Many people say that looking into someones eyes is like looking into their soul and in some ways it's true. All in all life is more normal and pleasant when you're deaf rather than blind.