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Except deaf people are used to dealing with one of their senses being reduced or removed and have likely much more robust coping strategies than those with full hearing. To take a sense away from a regular hearing person, and then add an additional distraction on top of that, is just fucking ridiculous.
I can believe that anyone could argue that as a regular hearing person, that they would be as aware of their surroundings while listening to headphones as when they are not.