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Straight up, what would the world be like if everyone was blind?
How would we change, how would society change, how would how we treat each other change, how would the social interactions change. As for how would we adapt? An interesting question as well but a secondary one. Also, would you consider living in such a world? Are there possible benefits/pros that exist, that may not necessarily outweigh the cons?
And by blind I mean... 100% blind, as if your eyes did not exist.
Or what if you couldn't recognize human faces / everyone looks the same or you couldn't differentiate people based on physical appearance. For example, you are equally likely to engage anyone in a conversation based on physical appearance.
However with the last one, you lose something important as well, since... humans have developed stereotypes for a reason and not all stereotypes are bad...
key: the "so what?" quesiton / point im trying to discuss
I guess the main point isn't really blindness but perhaps that social interactions would be better if we didn't know what the other person looked like. Not exactly like online communication, more like... being able to see them and see non-verbal communication but... not seeing their race, age, style of clothing, level of attractiveness... etc..
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how can we live with no eyes? Maybe humans can adapt somehow but then it becomes really mysterious as to how we are going to adapt.
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our ancestors would of all died to tigers and wolves and we wouldn't exist
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We'd be fucked. Beyond belief fucked.
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No one would put up with women, that's for sure.
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On February 06 2012 16:03 shadowboxer wrote:
No one would put up with women, that's for sure.
LMAO
It's not just sight that's alluring, at times.
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The triffids would take over.
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There'd be a lot more dates. 
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I'm pretty sure there's a movie made about this...I think it was called Blindness
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If we did not have eyes, we would have developed echo-location or some other way of surveying our surroundings. Evolution wouldn't have been very kind to humanity otherwise.
If you instead are asking, what if suddenly everyone went blind in the current world... well. Almost everything would get shut down. You can't drive/work/etc without vision. Human interaction isn't as much of a problem as daily functions such as cooking etc.
For your other one, where we couldn't differentiate people based on appearances... Everyone would wear nametags. It would be customary to declare your name when you meet someone. We would differentiate people by their voices. Human-kind is clever, and I doubt it'd be a problem.
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There would be fewer terrible conjecture threads posted on this forum I would think.
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hmm... tough question. if humanity randomly went blind now, I don't think we'd be able to handle it and we'd end up going extinct.
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If we all suddenly went blind, the vast majority of humanity would die quickly as we'd lose almost all infrastructure, communication, and ability to survive without such things. Once all of the food any given person knows the location of even while blind is gone, they'd just starve to death (we'd still have tap water which would be easy enough to get blind).
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Watch Blindness(Movie), not that great but I'd say it illustrated alot if we were to turn blind the next day.
If we were always blind I'd say we'd be alot more compasionate and not such a big bunch of douchebags.
Would I want to live in such a world, I guess, only if I didn't know what good comes out of being able to see... I do think we as a human race would benefit alot from going blind though. It would just take like a year to give some positive outcome.
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On February 06 2012 16:05 Box.N.Straw wrote:
I'm pretty sure there's a movie made about this...I think it was called Blindness
interesting, but not quite what i mean with this thread... sigh... sudden blindness or blindness as a disease wasn't quite what i was thinking of. i was thinking more of social blindness? blindness to social norms of appearance? ahh something like that... blah
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Creatures that live blind have made adaptions to living blind....eg. mole?
anyways... in terms of social interactions, we'd find different ways besides physical appears, eg, voice, speed (assuming we could sense how fast someone did something), efficiency, etc...
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On February 06 2012 16:05 Proseat wrote:There'd be a lot more dates.
yeah like this =o
On February 06 2012 16:16 Keitzer wrote:
anyways... in terms of social interactions, we'd find different ways besides physical appears, eg, voice, speed (assuming we could sense how fast someone did something), efficiency, etc...
and also like this... but hmm... that's kind of true i guess, and accents... maybe we would find new ways to adapt and create new stereotypes...
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On February 06 2012 16:18 jodogohoo wrote:yeah like this =o Show nested quote +On February 06 2012 16:16 Keitzer wrote:
anyways... in terms of social interactions, we'd find different ways besides physical appears, eg, voice, speed (assuming we could sense how fast someone did something), efficiency, etc...
and also like this... but hmm... that's kind of true i guess, and accents... maybe we would find new ways to adapt and create new stereotypes...
well... just from watching the trailer to Blindness, you notice people revert back to their ways of government, currency, need for food, etc... and violence still occurs, just on a different level
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