but that he’d nevertheless lead a happy, flourishing life and love his culture and skin color and moreover that the added diversity would be a net good for humanity.
Are we still discussing this as an analogy with deaf people? Because I don’t think that most deaf people love their deafness, and though I like diversity of skin colors (and genders, and hair colors, and eye colors) I don’t believe that the existence of deafness or of blindness or of leprosy or of AIDS is a net good for humanity.
Because I don’t think that most deaf people love their deafness
I honestly can’t cite any statistics, but there are many, many, many congenitally deaf people who view their condition as a fundamental part of who they are and don’t want it to change. Maybe that attitude is pathological or something, but there it is.
I don’t believe that the existence of deafness or of blindness or of leprosy or of AIDS is a net good for humanity.
I think the existence of deaf people who want to be deaf is arguably a net good for humanity. Deaf culture is as real as black culture. Few people with AIDS or leprosy are glad they have it, however.
I honestly can’t cite any statistics, but there are many, many, many congenitally deaf people who view their condition as a fundamental part of who they are and don’t want it to change.
Doesn’t it tell you something if it’s only people who are congenitally deaf and thus have never experienced hearing who are the only ones that don’t want to experience it?
I think the existence of deaf people who want to be deaf is arguably a net good for humanity.
How?
Deaf culture is as real as black culture.
You keep using the word “culture” as if it’s supposed to drive away all my objections. Fine it’s real—how does that show it to be good that it exists?
There are lots of cultures that I wish had never existed—and when they exist I wish they were eradicated. Female-genital-mutilation cultures, because I wish there was no female genital mutilation. Aztec human-sacrificing culture, because I want there not to be any human sacrificing. Deaf culture, because I don’t want there to be any deafness.
Are we still discussing this as an analogy with deaf people? Because I don’t think that most deaf people love their deafness, and though I like diversity of skin colors (and genders, and hair colors, and eye colors) I don’t believe that the existence of deafness or of blindness or of leprosy or of AIDS is a net good for humanity.
I honestly can’t cite any statistics, but there are many, many, many congenitally deaf people who view their condition as a fundamental part of who they are and don’t want it to change. Maybe that attitude is pathological or something, but there it is.
I think the existence of deaf people who want to be deaf is arguably a net good for humanity. Deaf culture is as real as black culture. Few people with AIDS or leprosy are glad they have it, however.
Doesn’t it tell you something if it’s only people who are congenitally deaf and thus have never experienced hearing who are the only ones that don’t want to experience it?
How?
You keep using the word “culture” as if it’s supposed to drive away all my objections. Fine it’s real—how does that show it to be good that it exists?
There are lots of cultures that I wish had never existed—and when they exist I wish they were eradicated. Female-genital-mutilation cultures, because I wish there was no female genital mutilation. Aztec human-sacrificing culture, because I want there not to be any human sacrificing. Deaf culture, because I don’t want there to be any deafness.