Re: Would be being born blind and deaf be that bad?
Well, we generally form concepts by having similarities pointed out to us. But to someone blind/deaf, the similarities that are there for us just wouldnt be there for them (think about how you'd distinguish cats from dogs based on feel alone, or how you could convey that a kitten is a baby cat despite feeling completely different). If a blind/deaf community managed to evolve a language it would probably be based around tactile groupings and I suspect the concepts they had (if any) would be utterly distinct from those employed in languages used by the non-blind.
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