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Ya, everything I read, and just from thinking about it, it's obvious that CI would be most beneficial to born deaf as early as possible. For a while hoichi stumped me and I waffled thinking that it is removing a choice from the kid, but either way you remove a choice, with or without. Then I...

Wow, thanks Ambrosia. I'm pretty interested in the topic. CI came up in a recent appt. with my ENT. If my hearing keeps declining it'll probably be a decision I'll have to make, or well, at least explore if it'll be a possibility. I'd also like to thank you for sharing your experience. I read...

I agree that "the children" isn't really the strongest argument. I think where the communication burden falls is, and it's especially true when thinking about deaf children of hearing parents. We all know that it's not terribly easy to communicate orally for someone who has significant hearing...

There is only no possibility so long as people believe there is no possibility. There is in fact a possibility. Anything is possible... anything at all; but only if given enough time.

I can't at all understand what drives someone to do something purely evil. The only reason I can think of is insanity. Insanity is defined as "in a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction". Something has to be messed up in their head to think "hey I should...

Well true, one doesn't negate the other, but why don't people focus on the bigger problem instead of a tiny insignificant number like 16? In the US we eat 9B chickens every year. 9 Billion... We kill 9B chickens annually. That's more chickens than there are people on the planet, and that's...

You read and answered very litterally (most of those were just rhetorical questions), but missed the key word in there "absolutely". Absolutely would mean that an answer exists that would apply to all people. The vast majority (any sane person who isn't lying) would look at the answer and go...

They're required to provide "Accommodations" under the ADA. There's details here: http://nad.org/issues/justice/police-and-law-enforcement/communication-access It's quite possible that the officer you spoke with was wrong, or was speaking specifically of a single part of the arrest (the...

The world is always changing, cultures come and go, life styles come and go, people come and go. Part of life is accepting the change. It's the only way to truly find sustained happiness. That said, I think some stuff's worth fighting for. There are plenty of questions when it comes to...

That's a great point, about Deaf parents inviting hearing parents of deaf children in more. It'd give them a lot more insight. Just being here, reading here and elsewhere, I've learned a lot more about CI than I knew previously. I could understand how most hearing parents would think it's some...

I'm going to Cherry pick what I reply to because we're getting super deep and it's getting harder to read/follow. You're okay with willing sacrifice to potentially increase the quality of life of others, but you're against the unwilling sacrifice/harm of either animals or humans to reach the...

The ethical questions might be part of what draws me to it, actually. I am wildly fascinated by ethical questions, they really make you think and there's almost never ever a unanimously accepted right answer.

It's definitely true that deafness is not life threatening, but neither are things like being disfigured, missing limbs, being blind, or any countless other conditions that exist that definitely do impact quality of life. This actually makes the questions more difficult. They become things like...

Glad it helped and came across clear. It was fun to write, remembering how all that works and reminding myself. Makes me sort of wish I went into genetics though, love the topic.

If I were to do it all over, I might focus a career on genetics. It's so wildly interesting and we're such newbs still. So much room for huge discoveries. I think some of the biggest most wild changes to our world/species will come from genetics in the next couple centuries.

I really have a hard time feeling bad about animals who are experimented on when we raise animals under horrible conditions so we can eat them. There might be a few thousand animals that are used for testing each year, but we raise and slaughter billions of animals for eating every single...

I'd like to think it's not just money vs. ethics. Hearing people believe hearing is a requirement for a high quality of life and by restoring hearing to newly born humans they are giving those children the best possible chance to have a quality life. It's obviously super controversial, and I'm...

This kind of stuff baffles me... What's the point? What message is trying to be sent? Senseless killing...

I can explain this. Color blindness is passed on the gender chromosome, which has 2 parts X and Y. So a quick recap of gender, mothers have 2 X parts in their gender chromosome, one is used in making the baby. Fathers have an X and a Y and either one of the other is passed. Boys are made when...

That makes sense, thanks for the clear up. I think we're actually of the same opinion. I think 20s and 30s is OK but i agree 18 and 30s is kind of questionable. But it absolutely depends on the people involved, life station, and all the other circumstances. It's just too hard to say its always...