Would you rather go deaf or blind?

I honestly can't decide.

Going blind would mean not seeing any movies and my favourite tv-show anymore. It would not mean no books anymore though, as someone suggested! Blind people are able to enjoy literature as well.

But going deaf would mean no more music. That's at least as important, probably even more important.

Not being able to enjoy the beauty in nature and other people, that would be really really hard though. But considering that if I was to go deaf, I would still hear the ringing in my ears, and that would probably drive me to insanity as I couldn't hide it behind other sounds and not think about it anymore.

I don't know. I can't decide. Can't vote. I just hope I'll never go either deaf or blind.

You don't go blind listening to Motorhead...

There are Blind Guardian,but not Deaf Guardian

I've listened to Motorhead & Ted Nugent to the point where if I'm Not deaf by now, the chances I don't have to worry about that. & I spent enough time during my youth in the washroom holding up my old Farrah Fawcett poster with one hand, and I can still see, so I think I'm immune to either handicap. 

Bumpity-bump!

Sasquamo wrote: cuncuna wrote: Blind. The visual part of life is the less meaningful, compared to be able to hear conversations, music, etc. In fact, if I had to choose between all senses, still I would dather go blind. Taste great food, (wich involves taste and smell), touch someone else, be able to have communication; it all seem much more relevant than appearances.   If I had to get rid of one of my senses I would go for taste.  Taste is nothing compared to the other senses, and besides, if food was tasteless to you, you'd probably never have to worry about overeating and becoming overweight.

Without taste, there would be no pleasure with food. Don't care much for eyesight if I have to choose. Blind, I would still be able to touch women, wich is far more pleasant than just look at them. Eyes provides a mirage, not the experience. In terms of work, I would become the Porno blind melomaniac, and show the world that pleasure comes from actions, not illusions.
    

Blind any day – deaf people can't listen to prog metal!

Well here's a quandry... take for example Evelyn Glennie; one of the greatest living classical percussionists, yet profoundly deaf:



If I were deaf, I couldn't hear her; yet if I were blind, I couldn't see her... and she's such a hottie!

But not to be able to read (yes, audio books are available, but it's not the same), never to see another movie (a huge loss, in my case), to lose photography forever (both my admiration of the greats, and my own considerably poorer efforts)... and yes, as Peter says, to never see my wife or family/friends again.

Don't get me wrong, the loss of music as part of my life would be (at first) crippling, but on balance, if I had to choose... well, it's goodbye Pallas for ever!

...or does Pallas come under loss of taste?

moonlapse wrote: You know, the results of this poll really blow my mind. If you are blind, you will always be dependent on someone else for the simplest things, like cooking, going to the supermarket for food or the mall for clothes - or anywhere else for that matter.  Never be able to travel on your own, and what's the point anyway if you can't see where you're going? If you are deaf, although not ideal you could still at least communicate via sign language or lip reading and reading and writing, and be much more independent than if you were blind. How about work and income?  I would think it would be easier to get something if you're deaf.  At least you could travel to work on your own. So, you prefer blindness so you can sit around and listen to prog all day?  And then do what else?  Think of all the things you couldn't do - I think you'd get bored pretty fast.  To each his own, but I think it's insane to prefer blindness over deafness.

You know, the results of this poll really blow my mind.

If you are blind, you will always be dependent on someone else for the simplest things, like cooking, going to the supermarket for food or the mall for clothes - or anywhere else for that matter.  Never be able to travel on your own, and what's the point anyway if you can't see where you're going?

If you are deaf, although not ideal you could still at least communicate via sign language or lip reading and reading and writing, and be much more independent than if you were blind.

How about work and income?  I would think it would be easier to get something if you're deaf.  At least you could travel to work on your own.

So, you prefer blindness so you can sit around and listen to prog all day?  And then do what else?  Think of all the things you couldn't do - I think you'd get bored pretty fast.  To each his own, but I think it's insane to prefer blindness over deafness.