I could be wrong, but I think you could live a more independent life with sight as your only sense than if you went blind but kept your other senses. So, although it would suck never being able to taste food again, hear Mozart, or enjoy sex, I would choose to keep my sight at the expense of all my other senses.
Is there an argument to be made for the opposite? Also, is there anything - besides maybe your kids - that you WOULD give up your sight to keep?
I think lack of sense of proprioception would mess with your life a lot more than you expect.
theJeff wrote:
I could be wrong, but I think you could live a more independent life with sight as your only sense than if you went blind but kept your other senses. So, although it would suck never being able to taste food again, hear Mozart, or enjoy sex, I would choose to keep my sight at the expense of all my other senses.
Is there an argument to be made for the opposite? Also, is there anything - besides maybe your kids - that you WOULD give up your sight to keep?
Ummm... ever heard of Stevie Wonder? How about Ray Charles?
Just Another LRC Idiot wrote:
theJeff wrote:
I could be wrong, but I think you could live a more independent life with sight as your only sense than if you went blind but kept your other senses. So, although it would suck never being able to taste food again, hear Mozart, or enjoy sex, I would choose to keep my sight at the expense of all my other senses.
Is there an argument to be made for the opposite? Also, is there anything - besides maybe your kids - that you WOULD give up your sight to keep?
Ummm... ever heard of Stevie Wonder? How about Ray Charles?
I'm deaf you dick.
Gotta give up sight, though that would suck large.
Without a sense of touch it would be well-nigh impossible to navigate through a day. You'd have to be fed through a tube, I guess. By someone else.
All the others, we live in the Matrix they are all computer generated anyhow.
Subway Surfers wrote:
All the others, we live in the Matrix they are all computer generated anyhow.
You must have Netflix, lol. I just re-watched those in the past week, too... was surprised that some of the special effects felt slightly dated, and I noticed more "just gloss over this very important plot-hole" than I did back in the day... but what a cool trilogy.
theJeff wrote:
I could be wrong, but I think you could live a more independent life with sight as your only sense than if you went blind but kept your other senses. So, although it would suck never being able to taste food again, hear Mozart, or enjoy sex, I would choose to keep my sight at the expense of all my other senses.
Is there an argument to be made for the opposite? Also, is there anything - besides maybe your kids - that you WOULD give up your sight to keep?
You're only thinking of hearing, taste and smell and ignoring touch. Just imagining for a second what life would be like with no physical sensation at all would show how ridiculous this question is.
i did pick one before i clicked and it was easy for me. Senses such as knowing where your body parts are without physically seeing them, hearing stuff, it keeps you alive. Without a lotttt I’d support in place you’d be pretty easily hit by a car or fall victim to any number of bad things.
Imagine not being able to feel that you’re getting cut until you’re bleeding out
If I can’t feel pain then I can race at maximum speed without hurting so hell yea I’ll keep my sight and f+ck everything else. Won’t miss hearing because then I won’t have to hear my wife nag or the snotty neighbourhood children waking me up. I don’t enjoy eating that much anyway, I have a small appitite and most of my days consist of stuffing/forcing nut butter and banana shakes down me to fuel training.
Hell yea, it even sounds preferable!!!!!11110101
Keep sight.
Without any senses other than sight you would either require constant support or you would die very quickly. Very stupid question that you clearly didn't think through.
Trav j wrote:
If I can’t feel pain then I can race at maximum speed without hurting so hell yea I’ll keep my sight and f+ck everything else. Won’t miss hearing because then I won’t have to hear my wife nag or the snotty neighbourhood children waking me up. I don’t enjoy eating that much anyway, I have a small appitite and most of my days consist of stuffing/forcing nut butter and banana shakes down me to fuel training.
Hell yea, it even sounds preferable!!!!!11110101
Pain and running doesn't work that way. There are people in this world who do not feel pain, and they are not the best distance runners or even show any talent for it. Pain is not the determining factor in how fast you can run. Ridiculous to think so.
Trav j wrote:
If I can’t feel pain then I can race at maximum speed without hurting so hell yea I’ll keep my sight and f+ck everything else.
Uh huh. Of course you wouldn't be able to put on your shoes (or clothes), wouldn't know whether your foot had touched the ground or not, wouldn't be able to stay upright (no sense of balance) . . . but you'd be able to race at maximum speed.
Sure.
ssjtr wrote:
Trav j wrote:
If I can’t feel pain then I can race at maximum speed without hurting so hell yea I’ll keep my sight and f+ck everything else.
Uh huh. Of course you wouldn't be able to put on your shoes (or clothes), wouldn't know whether your foot had touched the ground or not, wouldn't be able to stay upright (no sense of balance) . . . but you'd be able to race at maximum speed.
Sure.
And even if you somehow could actually move:
... you wouldn't hear the gun.
... you wouldn't know when to take any fluids.
... you also wouldn't know when to eat.
... you wouldn't know when you needed to use the bathroom.
So yeah, good luck with that.