It’s safe to say the people in here have experienced music at a high level of quality. If faced with the choice would you choose to give up your hearing and live without the joys of headphones or sacrifice your vision to continue in this hobby? Just something to think about. (Not trying to be offensive to the unfortunate ones who are blind or deaf.)

  • Doccks71@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Considering the subreddit you posted under you will quite likely get hearing, i will probably get dowvotted but

    Vision, and its not even close, our society is greatly built upon visual stimuli

    Even going deaf i would still have an easier time adjusting than going blind, makes me remimd of Sound of Metal (2019)

    • thatcarolguy@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      There’s a reason our society is greatly built upon visual stimuli. It is by far our most reliable and useful sense for making sense of reality.

  • Ophanil@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    When I was younger I’d choose vision, but now that I’ve seen pretty much all I need to see for enjoyment I’d pick hearing.

  • Hephaestus002@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    born blind is way better than being born deaf

    but losing sight is a bigger deal than losing hearing

    • Academus1@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Why is it worse to be born deaf than to be born blind? My instinct would suggest the opposite, similar to the second line you wrote .

      • Hephaestus002@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        it’s because you’d have harder time communicating with people, language is a spoken tool before it was written, and sign language is not really as useful for communication you’d wish as it really depends on if others know it which in most cases they don’t

        so being born deaf would isolate you a lot, just imagine seeing people talking in front of you and you can’t hear them, it would really feel bad, on the other hand born blind people don’t really know what they are missing out on

  • NormalUpstandingGuy@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been pretty set in if I lose either I’m going to end it. Recently I’ve had my right ear losing some hearing and suffice it to say I haven’t been handling it well.

  • Logan_Holmes@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My headphones would probably sound even better if I were blind. Less stimuli for my brain to deal with