2010-03-09 - Rider Down/Fatality, Weston St x Snowsfield

do you think deaf people should be allowed to drive or ride a bike? If so then why can't someone listening to music?

Edscoble is a good example of someone with limited hearin who is perfectly safe on a bike. There are many more idiots with fully working ears who are a danger to themselves.

As I am not hard of hearing or partially deaf I cannot speak for them. But, for someone who has good hearing and who always has, I have never had to learn to live with not having my hearing as one of my senses. if I get on my bike and blast music into my ears. I am cutting off one of the senses that I rely on everday and have never learned to live without.

Mike has it spot on. Adjusting to disability, or never living in any other way, just means that you use other strengths. People sometimes assume that by putting on, say, opaque glasses, or ones with strange patterns on them to 'simulate' glaucoma, they can 'understand' 'what it is like to live with' certain disabilities. This is completely fallacious, as they obviously have no such period of adjustment.