if you are blind you will never experience the joy of color or seeing the beauty in something, but if you are deaf, you have the inablility to speak, and have very little balance due to the inner ear organ being unable to function. both really suck, but I'd do deaf because there's at least a surgical option for solving that problem.
id be deaf. exactly because of what graham said. the only thing that wold be a shame is not hearing music anymore but in the future, im sure seeing the people i love will be more important to me then hearing them
i would rather be blind... from birth. some people have developed a sort of sonar by clicking there tounges. they cant sprint full speed but can ride bicks at a certin speed. you could still have a conversaion with people and what not but work would be kinda difficult. and you could fix blindness by having a camera implanted to the optical nerves. AMB vision... and the best part... you could have any i mean ANT kind of vision... Heat,Night Color, even x-ray( but the kinda you get from the doctor
Being blind might be more interesting, since it would mean refining all my other senses and discovering a lot of new sensations instead of keep using sight as the main.
A movie: See no Evil, Hear No Evil. It's a video about a blind man, and a deaf person. And it shows that both things is "the same". But i rather be Deaf. Cause Deaf people can lip-read. (the deaf person in the movie, can live a "normal" life with lip-reading)
i rather want to be deaf than blind becouse if i can't see i don't know where i'm going. and read with out my hands it's way easier to sign with your hands
(the deaf person in the movie, can live a "normal" life with lip-reading
i think that lip-reading is way harder then what you have to learn when your blind. but i rather be deaf also because signing is easyer then what you have to learn when your deaf =P