In this area, its GREAT to point out the correlation with Cochlear Implants.. As you know, when a person gets a CI, the entire inner ear is destroyed and replaced by a computer… Suppose it happens that someone discovers a NEW technology that improves hearing better than CI, but requires that the person have an intact cochlea… What can be done for people who have already destroyed their cochlea with a CI???

Interesting to think about…

But Bobby White has a point about what we do to ourselves like cohlear implants. So what is the difference then?

To Shane’s post, it could be headlined as worse as, “Deaf Man surgically alters his thumb instead of his ear.”

To McConnell, about the use of word, “slice,” what’s your beef? First of all, “slicing open…” is another way to say it and that is precisely what is happening in the surgery. Secondly, Bobby White wasn’t targeting only on deaf people but also hearing people, who wear glasses when he used the word, “slice.” Any time there’s surgery, people need to be sliced open. Thirdly, if you really want to lecture him on using a better choice of word, you should have also
included the one about those going through laser where “slice,” was used in the description. You targeted him only on using the word, “slice” on deaf people who go through surgery for CI.

Knock on wood.

Dumb or excessive?

How about both?

Bobby White, nice bit of excessive hyperbole there - “..slicing open their children’s heads”

Hardly.