alt Hacker NewsYou've set up a straw man here - nobody in this thread is claiming that it's not detrimental to be missing a sense.
The point is that disability exists within the context of the world we live in, and the society we've built is one that largely assumes people have both sight and hearing.
> Sensory disabilities like deafness and blindness are disabling because the world is not oriented to people with sensory disabilities.
Implying that they wouldn’t be detrimental if the world was “oriented” differently.