Alkonium Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I was just watching an episode of CSI:NY, in which the entire family of a victim is deaf. This got me thinking, if you had choose one of your five senses to lose, what would it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentScope001 Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 A spilt between taste and smell. Both seem useless, IMHO. I voted taste, but then realized that I may need taste to determine if something is a posion or not. But then again, I don't know how posion taste like. Still, smell seem pretty useless as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titanius Anglesmith Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I voted smell, just because it seems the most useless out of all. It's not completely useless though, since you can smell a food before you eat it to test whether its rotten or not. Then again, if it's rotten, it's probly not gonna look so hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Probably smell. Or taste. I dunno, just as long as it's not sight or hearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallucination Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I'd lose my sense of smell if I had to, but I'll try to keep all my senses for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cards227 Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Well, smell and taste are so closely linked that to lose one would almost infer losing the other (a slight exaggeration, but still a valid argument). Losing the sense of touch would be way too risky (no pain receptors might seem like a good thing until you accidentally bleed to death because you didn't realize that you sliced your hand open). That leaves hearing or sight and as much as I love some sounds, I think I would be able to give those up more readily than the beautiful things that I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabish Bini Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Smell. Most useless, like EagerWeasel said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Like Achilles said, I don't think I would want to give up taste and smell so I'd probably say hearing, if I had to choose one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Hearing. I never watched that episode, so Al, which episode is that?' PS: I have all CSI series, and I'll watch them on my DVD... Well...I'd prefer not to say why, and it's just hearing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Devon Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I'd choose smell. There aren't any scents worth giving up any of the other senses for. I'm surprised some people could go without taste. Food would become extremely boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totenkopf Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I think taste, in part b/c smell plays such an important part in your sense of taste, almost like a redundancy of sorts. You could be pretty sure that you woudn't eat or drink anything particularly foul smelling by accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkonium Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 Hearing. I never watched that episode, so Al, which episode is that?' PS: I have all CSI series, and I'll watch them on my DVD... Well...I'd prefer not to say why, and it's just hearing... It wouldn't be on DVD. It's the latest episode of CSI:NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I'd give up taste. I work with visually impaired and know just how hard it is to go without sight. I wouldn't want to lose hearing--that's actually more socially isolating than losing sight, because if you can't hear a conversation, you can't respond. I couldn't give up touch--I've seen folks who have permanent numbness in some limb, and I always hear stories about how they burned themselves on the stove or ran into things without realizing it, and really hurting themselves as a result. While taste and smell are linked (if you can't smell, your ability to taste food drops), of those 2 I'd rather lose taste. At least that way I could smell dangerous odors, like that rotten egg smell they put in natural gas so you can smell when it's leaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 It wouldn't be on DVD. It's the latest episode of CSI:NY. Eh...Okay. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Varen Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Taste for me, since then, I would be able to eat food that I wouldn't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totenkopf Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 It would certainly make veggies like broccoli a lot more palatable, pardon the pun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Skywalker Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Oh great, taste and smell are linked, geez... Isn't there like an useless sixth sense? But anyways, i think smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Isn't there like an useless sixth sense? That's what the ladies call it but i just name it Lil'Herb. Id give up smell. I love all my other senses too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sith'ari Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Hard choice. Maybe a little bit of each sense? I'd rather have impaired (well, not severely) eyesight, hearing, taste, touch and smell, instead of entirely losing one. All these senses sustain evolution and that proves they're all needed for survival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I don't know really. Hard choice indeed. Probably taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimartin Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I voted taste. At least then I could eat my own cooking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I really don't know. I'm rather attached to them all, and as taste and smell are linked, I just can't decide. If they weren't I'd choose smell, since it is the sense from which personally I find the least pleasurable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaelastraz Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Smell. Sight and hearing are far to valueable to even consider. Same with touch. Taste is important for an enjoyable life, I like good food. That leaves smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windu Chi Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Smell. Sight and hearing are far to valueable to even consider. Same with touch. Taste is important for an enjoyable life, I like good food. That leaves smell. I don't know about you, but I don't think no one can taste without smelling their food while in the eating process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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