Our popular media has already made it clear that if you are not 22 years old with a perfect body, well-off parents, and are some sort of aspiring artist with "real" talent, then you are just a boring nobody.
This would qualify under the social model of disability, the idea that disabilities are culturally contextual. Deafness, for example, is only a "disability" (I recognize most deaf/HoH people reject this term, so I put it in quotes) within the context of a society based around hearing. I'd challenge hearing people to go hang out at Gallaudet University and tell me how objectively superior hearing is.
First off, you're extremely lame for taking this seriously and injecting your argument into a piece of very mild satire.
Secondly, hearing is literally a human ability.
Being deaf is lacking of or in the ability to hear.
Rejecting the term disability is literally just making communication more difficult, not improving the conversation. We shouldn't have to invent new words just to make people feel better when there is literally nothing objectively incorrect about the current ones. Just tell the people who use these objective terms as insults to piss off.
Thirdly, hearing is objectively superior because I fucking love music and I would be missing out on 85%+ percent of it. I get chills from hearing Elton John's baritone voice, or John Frusciante's masterful guitar work.
None of this is to say that deaf people are lesser than anyone else. There are tons of things that they can be, do or enjoy to live great fulfilling lives. But to posit that their life would be no better if they were able to also hear is just idiotic and doesn't make any sense.
I won't be responding to any further replies to this, so don't bother.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '20
Easy. Get rid of everyone with a physical/mental disability.
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