There is no winning with some people. If there was no cure, I am going to bet that these same people will be complaining that the pharma industry doesn't value them enough.

Likely because you have no experience with needing accessibility nor the disabled community? There are two approaches, the first usually being followed by non-disabled people:

1. You can only be whole ifwe heal you 2. I am fine as long as the world doesn't make me suffer

I can see both sides, but I also see that 1 is incredibly condescending.

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Yes let’s go make deafness optional for adults and eradicate childhood deafness. Zero moral ambiguity.

Consider this from the perspective of a deaf person. While it seems silly from the perspective of a hearing person, a lot of people in the deaf community are concerned that they are viewed as having a problem needing to be fixed, rather than competent, highly functioning people.

In 200 years we'll be having the same debate about whether missing the gene for the Human-Machine Interface Organ is a problem in need of eradication.

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It’s not, and if you don’t understand this, you’ve never been around the deaf community before. My college language agreement was filled through sign language. Learning about the deaf community was fascinating.

To some in the Deaf community, being Deaf is like skin color or hair color or height or left handedness; a normal variation of humanity with its own culture. "Fixing" reads as genocide to them, and it's not entirely unwarranted.