Do you support a cure for deafness?

Do you support a cure for deafness?

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kokonut said:
In life on this planet, everything eventually disappears.
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:shock: Don't you dare go there when you are talking about everything will disappear and have us be all perfectly normal like stepford wives or stepford husbands. I don't like that and this was suppose to be my last post but you are making me upset about that. Will you quit doing that? You are blowing out of porportions. Stop! Geez.
 
Bebonang said:
:shock: Don't you dare go there when you are talking about everything will disappear and have us be all perfectly normal like stepford wives or stepford husbands. I don't like that and this was suppose to be my last post but you are making me upset about that. Will you quit doing that? You are blowing out of porportions. Stop! Geez.
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Meaning Earth won't be around forever.
 
I voted yes. If there happens to be a cure for deafness (due to private funding), I would support it.

I also do believe that it would further oppress deaf people. This is unfortunate, but this is how life is when you don't fit in with the majority, especially when changes come from technology improvements.

Examples of people against the majority:
- A man who loves to read the newspapers is pissed off that his favorite publication is becoming paperless and will appear online only. He needs to buy a computer in order to get his news. (Also applies for those who have analog TV and must go digital.)

- A woman who decides not to fix her daughter's cleft lip because that's how nature intended it. Doctors and other people will give her a lot of grief for this decision. (Also, the choice not to vaccinate their child.)

- The Amish constantly dealing with the newer generation getting enticed by all the new technology and leaving the family/culture.

However, I highly doubt a cure for deafness will eradicate the Deaf culture. The Industrial revolution was around the 18th century and Amish is still around, aren't they?
 
Daredevel7 said:
- The Amish constantly dealing with the newer generation getting enticed by all the new technology and leaving the family/culture.

However, I highly doubt a cure for deafness will eradicate the Deaf culture. The Industrial revolution was around the 18th century and Amish is still around, aren't they?
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Not exactly. The Amish are not being prosecuted for their beliefs. They deliberately de-attached themselves from society to avoid that. If someone threaten to force conscription or change their belief, they would simply up and move to Mexico or South America-- anywhere that would demand their agricultural labour.

Deaf people don't have the same blessings.
 
Daredevel7 said:
I voted yes. If there happens to be a cure for deafness (due to private funding), I would support it.

I also do believe that it would further oppress deaf people. This is unfortunate, but this is how life is when you don't fit in with the majority, especially when changes come from technology improvements.

Examples of people against the majority:
- A man who loves to read the newspapers is pissed off that his favorite publication is becoming paperless and will appear online only. He needs to buy a computer in order to get his news. (Also applies for those who have analog TV and must go digital.)

- A woman who decides not to fix her daughter's cleft lip because that's how nature intended it. Doctors and other people will give her a lot of grief for this decision. (Also, the choice not to vaccinate their child.)

- The Amish constantly dealing with the newer generation getting enticed by all the new technology and leaving the family/culture.

However, I highly doubt a cure for deafness will eradicate the Deaf culture. The Industrial revolution was around the 18th century and Amish is still around, aren't they?
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:gpost:
 
kokonut said:
Meaning Earth won't be around forever.
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:wtf: kind of answer is this in the context of this thread topic?

Are you trying to say "who cares if deafness is eradicated, the world will end anyway"?

:confused:
 
kokonut said:
Then a cure for paralysis, blindness, Alzheimer, Parkinson, hearing loss, and whole host of other conditions too numerous to mention here are not worth going for because there'd be less diversity. No?
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How can you lump deafness in with all these? Lots of them are more debilitating.
 
CJB said:
:wtf: kind of answer is this in the context of this thread topic?

Are you trying to say "who cares if deafness is eradicated, the world will end anyway"?

:confused:
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Kokonut likes to make controversy. He can be vague and condescending......again just proves my point again
 
kokonut said:
Then a cure for paralysis, blindness, Alzheimer, Parkinson, hearing loss, and whole host of other conditions too numerous to mention here are not worth going for because there'd be less diversity. No?
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Paralysis, alzheimers, and parkinsons are can be very debilitating. Deafness is not debilitating. It can be a hard adjustment for late deafened people but I do not think your life should cease to exist just because you lose your hearing. Also have some of those are DISEASES deafness isn't a disease. I think this poll is annoying due to the fact that any new comer could easily go back and read the views on countless AD members saying how they feel about a cure. Deaf culture is awesome and more hoh people should embrace it more often if they aren't involved in it. If there was a cure and someone wanted it then by all means but many Deaf and deaf people are just fine with being deaf and don't mind living they're every day life without sound or certain sounds.
 
CJB said:
:wtf: kind of answer is this in the context of this thread topic?

Are you trying to say "who cares if deafness is eradicated, the world will end anyway"?

:confused:
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No. One asked how long will it be til Deaf culture disappears. I said, in life, everything eventually disappears. Meaning that Earth, too, shall pass on eventually.
 
kokonut said:
No. One asked how long will it be til Deaf culture disappears. I said, in life, everything eventually disappears. Meaning that Earth, too, shall pass on eventually.
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ah so deaf culture will continue to exist until Earth passes away... how poetic your answer is....
 
Daredevel7 said:
I voted yes. If there happens to be a cure for deafness (due to private funding), I would support it.

I also do believe that it would further oppress deaf people. This is unfortunate, but this is how life is when you don't fit in with the majority, especially when changes come from technology improvements.

Examples of people against the majority:
- A man who loves to read the newspapers is pissed off that his favorite publication is becoming paperless and will appear online only. He needs to buy a computer in order to get his news. (Also applies for those who have analog TV and must go digital.)

- A woman who decides not to fix her daughter's cleft lip because that's how nature intended it. Doctors and other people will give her a lot of grief for this decision. (Also, the choice not to vaccinate their child.)

- The Amish constantly dealing with the newer generation getting enticed by all the new technology and leaving the family/culture.

However, I highly doubt a cure for deafness will eradicate the Deaf culture. The Industrial revolution was around the 18th century and Amish is still around, aren't they?
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If you had any more balls I would kick them.
 
souggy said:
Not exactly. The Amish are not being prosecuted for their beliefs. They deliberately de-attached themselves from society to avoid that. If someone threaten to force conscription or change their belief, they would simply up and move to Mexico or South America-- anywhere that would demand their agricultural labour.

Deaf people don't have the same blessings.
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The way I see it, there's two ways a cure could affect the Deaf culture. One is that more deaf people become hearing and may lose some ASL or simply there will be less deaf people. This is where it is definitely similar to the Amish with new technology. The other way is that hearing people will just dismiss deaf people as "nuts" or some other negative feeling for not taking advantage of the cure, putting them at a disadvantage. The deaf people generally can't do anything about this (other than making everyone respect their decision). This is where it is different from the Amish, who are self sustaining.

But honestly, to me, I think we (the deaf) generally have been at a disadvantage since... well, people started talking. I don't really see how much more oppression the cure would add on.
 
AliciaM said:
Paralysis, alzheimers, and parkinsons are can be very debilitating. Deafness is not debilitating. It can be a hard adjustment for late deafened people but I do not think your life should cease to exist just because you lose your hearing. Also have some of those are DISEASES deafness isn't a disease. I think this poll is annoying due to the fact that any new comer could easily go back and read the views on countless AD members saying how they feel about a cure. Deaf culture is awesome and more hoh people should embrace it more often if they aren't involved in it. If there was a cure and someone wanted it then by all means but many Deaf and deaf people are just fine with being deaf and don't mind living they're every day life without sound or certain sounds.
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Yes, those conditions can be debilitating. There are many other conditions that are not as debilitating but a cure would be nice as well. Many do see deafness as debilitating, others do not. Just as with any condition one learn to live with it.
 
Daredevel7 said:
The way I see it, there's two ways a cure could affect the Deaf culture. One is that more deaf people become hearing and may lose some ASL or simply there will be less deaf people. This is where it is definitely similar to the Amish with new technology. The other way is that hearing people will just dismiss deaf people as "nuts" or some other negative feeling for not taking advantage of the cure, putting them at a disadvantage. The deaf people generally can't do anything about this (other than making everyone respect their decision). This is where it is different from the Amish, who are self sustaining.

But honestly, to me, I think we (the deaf) generally have been at a disadvantage since... well, people started talking. I don't really see how much more oppression the cure would add on.
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A better comparsion, IMO, would be Israel. :lol: Quebec would be ideal, but... seeing how anglophones treat them...

Despite the pressure to convert... and all the bad things that happened... they managed to resist outside pressure.
 
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