Romy

I'm better than you because I actually lied to you all along. In reality, I am the real Romy. Sorry.

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Kerry.

You can only have 2 pictures indexed. ;)

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I'm better than you because you made me misread it!

Moving this to Tech & Comptuers. ;) ~Romy

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I'm better than you because I can paint a curcified phone - that won't make 'em dead. ;)

I'm better bitter than you because I'm not Romy, I'm Goonstalf.

Nor will we know how the baby involved in the terminated pregnancy feels because it never got a chance to voice its opinion. Its only voice is in the pro-life movement, so it's necessary for us to speak about the rights and obligations of its mother to defend the voiceless fetus. Is pregnancy easy? Hell no. I respect all mothers who are able to go through that kind of pain, because it is required if we want humanity to go on. But once the baby is conceived, is it an obligation for the mother to make this sacrifice to respect the baby's rights? That's where we have to speak up. What if having the baby will result in making 3 people's lives unbareable? (The father, the son baby, and the holy spirit mother.) Unbearable? What? A human being, an innocent human being, makes your life "unbearable"? People who steal your possessions, kill your family members, and destroy your home are unbearable. Not an innocent child, sorry. An innocent child of 2 16-year olds with no way to supply for him, can ruin all 3's lives. Things like going to college are immediately not an option anymore. The family will literally struggle to survive, the kid will never get to live the life any normal parent wishes for their kids' lives - it'll be full of poorness, commonly hatred, bare minimum of supplying the needs of all 3, commonly force the parents to take responsibility they're definitely not ready to take, commonly take away the plans any of the parents had for their lives, the kid will probably not be able to experience material happiness, be properly educated, have mature parents that can actually handle a child.... the list goes on almost endlessly. And that's as opposed to letting 2 actually live a life.

Nor will we know how the baby involved in the terminated pregnancy feels because it never got a chance to voice its opinion. Its only voice is in the pro-life movement, so it's necessary for us to speak about the rights and obligations of its mother to defend the voiceless fetus. Is pregnancy easy? Hell no. I respect all mothers who are able to go through that kind of pain, because it is required if we want humanity to go on. But once the baby is conceived, is it an obligation for the mother to make this sacrifice to respect the baby's rights? That's where we have to speak up. What if having the baby will result in making 3 people's lives unbareable? (The father, the son baby, and the holy spirit mother.)

I'm better than you because you live in FANTASY WORLD. :blink:

[hide] super heat while you mine :P and "action being taken" for forgetting to break img tags or put hide tabs? thats stupid. It won't be efnorced automatically on anyone breaking that rule. But breaking it more than a few times will definitely lead to action taken against accounts. In general, don't do it. We can understand a slip every once in a while, but a pattern of the same action isn't acceptable. Why is it even a big deal at all? [/hide] The idea is to get rid of all the negative problems we had on the last thread. Pointlessly lengthy pages were a problem. It isn't a "big deal", but it's the only way to deal with it.

super heat while you mine :P and "action being taken" for forgetting to break img tags or put hide tabs? thats stupid. It won't be efnorced automatically on anyone breaking that rule. But breaking it more than a few times will definitely lead to action taken against accounts. In general, don't do it. We can understand a slip every once in a while, but a pattern of the same action isn't acceptable.

It is a disadvantage in the social sense since most people construct the world for people who can hear. Actually, it's more than just a social disavantage. As I stated earlier, there are certain cases in which hearing could save lives. No, because A ) I still have these senses, only to a lesser degree. And B ) Theoratically, these things can be improved if I wanted to (to an extent). Deaf people cannot choose not to be deaf It is better. It allows communication from distance, through a phone, without eye-contact, etc. The fact that someone takes offence to something, does not make it not true anymore. Deafness is a disadvantage, even if some don't like that definition.

Yes and you are saying they are disabled because they are at a disadvantage. That is it more advantageous to hear than to not hear. It obviously is. It's an ability that certain people do not have, thus they're disadvantaged. It isn't bad or inferior. It is a disadvantage.

Since there are awefully too many posts containing quote chains, or quoting images, I should notify anyone reading this thread: Action will be taken against those who breach that rule. Please, always use hide tags when quoting images, and for quote chains- either use hide tags, or make sure to delete older parts of the chain from your posts. ~Romy

The point I am making is that there is no reason it is "right" to get a cochlear. Just like it is not right or wrong to do anything with your life. We are all missing on things. Not everyone has the genetic potential to do anything in life, and not everyone even wants to do it. Just because they cannot learn to use sound doesn't necessarily mean that they all wish they could. Just like you cannot be in the NBA and you may or may not wish that you could. I'm not trying to encourage getting cochlears or whatever. I'm just trying to explain that deafness is a disability.

It has been proven that people lacking one sense will have stronger senses in other departments. There are definitely some situations where Deaf people will beat you in their visual sense and this could potentially save their life over yours. It wouldn't be the first time deaf people are hurt because they couldn't hear. And their other senses became better because they have to rely on them - because they cannot rely on their hearing. Therefore, they're making up for their disability. The difference is - I can choose to start training right now. I can choose to learn self defence (and actually have, just saying). Deaf people cannot choose not to be deaf, that's why it's a disability.

Watching muted movies doesnt appeal to me because I am a person who has learned to use his hearing. Watching movies as a deaf person is enjoyable to them because they don't have hearing and do not rely on sounds to understand concepts of what is going on on the screen. Again you seem to be imagining if you took your hearing away. You need to imagine what it would be like to simply exist in a world where sound is not important. I am sure there is something that is important to you because you have lived knowing it. You city, your family, your religion, heritage, occupation, school interest. Anything you like, you only like it because you have learned to like it. Also, ASL poetry is as important to a Deaf person as watching a sound movie is to you. You seem to think that just because sound is important to you in a movie, therefore it is necessary for everyone. Well, ASL poetry is important to thousands of people, I guess it must be necessary for everyone too so you better start learning. But it is important. Even if you neglect parts like watching movies as intended (which you shouldn't, it makes no sense to) - Car accidents, life-saving calls, an approaching train, thief, murderer, rapist, or any other thing that could severely hurt a person's lfe, these are all taken away from deaf people. They're disadvantaged here, there's no question about it.

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