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I've been trying to pull myself away from the 360 and start painting again and resubmerge myself in the internets. I was diddling on lj and found this little, we'll call it a gem
http://community.livejournal.com/wtf_inc/5095162.html
I think it's the comments that piss me off more than anything. The numerous ones where uninformed people are flipping out about deaf people wanting to give their children a disability and how horrible it would be to willingly be deaf.
Now, I don't like the idea of scanning an unborn fetus for anything (gender, eye color, political leanings) period, so it's not about that. It's the whole disabilities thing.
If you are born with functioning eyes (or ears,) but then later in life lose this sight (or hearing... or anything else,) that's disabling. To be born like that? To have no concept of how to exist with the ability or see (or hear or whatever)? Not so much. There's recorded cases of people who were blind having their sight restored later in life and then being completely unable to function because it's so foreign to them. If you have an apple and a picture of an apple next to each other and you can't tell which one is the actual apple, you're in trouble.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that normal is pretty much what you start out with, what you're used to. I think everyone who has their vision and their hearing freak out about those poor people with disabilities, because they're trying to put themselves in their shoes and based on what they have and their own personal experiences, it seems like it'd be horrible. It probably would be horrible for anyone who had their hearing to lose it suddenly. But if you never had it in the first place, you wouldn't be missing anything. You certainly wouldn't have to be woken up at 2am by the drunk, shrieking domestic disturbance across the street, at any rate.
http://community.livejournal.com/wtf_inc/5095162.html
I think it's the comments that piss me off more than anything. The numerous ones where uninformed people are flipping out about deaf people wanting to give their children a disability and how horrible it would be to willingly be deaf.
Now, I don't like the idea of scanning an unborn fetus for anything (gender, eye color, political leanings) period, so it's not about that. It's the whole disabilities thing.
If you are born with functioning eyes (or ears,) but then later in life lose this sight (or hearing... or anything else,) that's disabling. To be born like that? To have no concept of how to exist with the ability or see (or hear or whatever)? Not so much. There's recorded cases of people who were blind having their sight restored later in life and then being completely unable to function because it's so foreign to them. If you have an apple and a picture of an apple next to each other and you can't tell which one is the actual apple, you're in trouble.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that normal is pretty much what you start out with, what you're used to. I think everyone who has their vision and their hearing freak out about those poor people with disabilities, because they're trying to put themselves in their shoes and based on what they have and their own personal experiences, it seems like it'd be horrible. It probably would be horrible for anyone who had their hearing to lose it suddenly. But if you never had it in the first place, you wouldn't be missing anything. You certainly wouldn't have to be woken up at 2am by the drunk, shrieking domestic disturbance across the street, at any rate.