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How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture
First time accepted submitter Maddie Kahn (3542515) writes "Deaf culture has its own language, its own social norms, its own art forms, its own theater. But it's under threat. Why? Because most parents of deaf children now choose to use technology to help their kids hear. This piece explores why a revolutionary technology stands accused of killing a culture."
Probably propaganda from the Whitehouse. After subsidies to the health insurers fail to keep them afloat, we'll see full scale rationing of healthcare. Kiss your high tech medical devices goodbye. But rejoice, it makes you part of a unique culture!
The same way the LGBT community is support for those who've lost their natural reproductive urges? Just saying... with over 20 different medical issues causing gender ambiguities and identity problems why aren't we searching for a cure?
Are you suggesting that if Steve Jobs paid his fortune to doctors and hospitals and spent hours engaged in painful "treatments" he would have lived one day longer than the path he chose? He had pancreatic cancer. It's not like a melanoma. It is inoperable and incurable. My body is not a pin-cushion for an entire team of doctors and administrators to fund their lifestyle at the expense of my family's lifetime of frugally saving up enough cash to cover a modest education for kids and possibly a retirement if one of us lives to be 80.
I've never heard that (pun not intended). Granted, I've only interacted with one deaf person in all of my life, and that for a short period of time; but I'd have thought any mindset as pervasive as you imply would've long ago become a matter of contentious public debate.
Perhaps you can provide a citation? Written testimonial evidence from >50% of all deaf people on Earth should suffice...