Celcio wrote:
xtremereign wrote:
The technology involving the deaf is such that we potentially could have no deaf people left in society at a point in our lifetimes.
I think you're conveniently forgetting about those who resent your elitist hearing-enabled attempts to take away their deafness.
Hence the entire "Sound and Fury" movie reference. Look, debating whether or not being able to hear is better or worse then being deaf is ridiculous. I'm not taking away from the deaf culture, I understand exactly their ties to each other and how emotional the subject is. But to insinuate that being deaf or blind for that matter, shouldn't be changed if it can be...well I think it's just terrible to say.
In "Sound and Fury" one set of parents actually chooses to keep their daughter deaf when it could be different. This decision is made after the mother, who decides to get the implant as well, finds out that the technology will not work for her. It will work for her young daughter, not for her. After finding this out, she does a complete 180 on the subject, and becomes an implant hate monger...when only days before she was hopeful of having the same treatment.
I can't imagine what it is like to be deaf or blind, I just can't. But I'd like to think that if I was deaf, my child was deaf, and I had the opportunity to change that I would. Even if it meant opening up a large divide between us I really hope I would make that choice.