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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] Beethoven has already composed a lot before he went deaf. And when his hearing did start to go, he used to do things like bite the piano to help him hear the notes. "If you can hear and go to China (assuming of course you are english speaking primarily), and you talk to a chinese person... they can hear you - but they do not understand you .." Completely different. If you spoke English, you could then chose to go and live in China, and you could chose whether or not to learn the language. If you are deaf, you live in a world of largely hearing people, and you cannot chose to hear. In China, the majority speak Chineseand only Chinese. In the US, the majority speak English and only English. And all over the world, the majority can hear. "I suppose my point is that "standard" is really just arbitrary." How? The majority of people are born able to hear. We have ears designed to allow us to hear. Human beings are, my design, designed to hear. Not hearing goes against that standard design. Nothing arbitary about it. "I bet ya their powers of observation are far better than mine..." I believe that's slightly apocryphal. Blind people don't become Daredevil, y'know. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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