A Hypothetical Question

[Alkonium]

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?

[SilentScope001]

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.

[Titanius Anglesmith]

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.

[milo]

Probably smell. Or taste. I dunno, just as long as it's not sight or hearing.

[Hallucination]

I'd lose my sense of smell if I had to, but I'll try to keep all my senses for a while.

[cards227]

Taste.

[Achilles]

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.

[Rabish Bini]

Smell. Most useless, like EagerWeasel said.

[Jeff]

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.

[CSI]

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...

[Emperor Devon]

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.

[Totenkopf]

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.

[Alkonium]

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.

[Jae Onasi]

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.

[CSI]

It wouldn't be on DVD. It's the latest episode of CSI:NY.

 

Eh...Okay. Thanks.

[Diego Varen]

Taste for me, since then, I would be able to eat food that I wouldn't like.

[Totenkopf]

It would certainly make veggies like broccoli a lot more palatable, pardon the pun.

[Jason Skywalker]

Oh great, taste and smell are linked, geez...

 

Isn't there like an useless sixth sense?

 

But anyways, i think smell.

[HerbieZ]

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.

[The Sith'ari]

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.

[Pho3nix]

I don't know really. Hard choice indeed. Probably taste.

[mimartin]

I voted taste. At least then I could eat my own cooking.

[Darth InSidious]

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...

[Vaelastraz]

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.

[Windu Chi]

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.