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Tomkat · 8 Oct 2005, 13:24

If he has never known sight or sound, he won't understand or be able to comprehend what these things are. We only would miss it because we've experienced it.

There was quite a bit of psychological research done into blindness. A few people had their sight restored after 20/30 years of blindness. Nearly all went into depression. Quite a few tried to kill themselves. They couldn't handle the new leash on life. They didn't understand what sight was, so they couldn't understand what to do with it.

So no, they wouldn't necessarily have such a bad life. You can't want something you don't understand.

If, however, they had sight and then lost it, that's a different story.

Take another sense for example. Smell. Some people have a very refined sense of smell. Now they probably think we're all really jealous and they're lucky. But we don't really care - we've never experienced this enhanced smell and so can't want it, because we don't understand it or why we'd need it.

8 Oct 2005, 13:24	#34
Tomkat :alpha: Join Date: May 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 7,871	Re: Would be being born blind and deaf be that bad? If he has never known sight or sound, he won't understand or be able to comprehend what these things are. We only would miss it because we've experienced it. There was quite a bit of psychological research done into blindness. A few people had their sight restored after 20/30 years of blindness. Nearly all went into depression. Quite a few tried to kill themselves. They couldn't handle the new leash on life. They didn't understand what sight was, so they couldn't understand what to do with it. So no, they wouldn't necessarily have such a bad life. You can't want something you don't understand. If, however, they had sight and then lost it, that's a different story. Take another sense for example. Smell. Some people have a very refined sense of smell. Now they probably think we're all really jealous and they're lucky. But we don't really care - we've never experienced this enhanced smell and so can't want it, because we don't understand it or why we'd need it. __________________ "There is no I in team, but there are two in anal fisting"