What if humans were born blind?

@kimmy159 vision is not the same as sight. Which one do you think is beyond the other?

@in10RjFox It really depends on what you mean with the difference between the 2. Since English isn’t my first language, vision and sight seem the same to me 😂
If you mean the deeper kind of ‘sight’ then of course that goes beyond what we can actually see.
We’re all born blind in that way. But what we ‘see’ depends on our environment and how we’re raised a lot. You can gain insights yourself, but even those are influenced most likely.

@kimmy159 There are many words related to the material & intellectual aspects. A Vision is something that you get even with eyes closed. And we also envision something. Even a blind has a vision, for they picture the world with other sensory perceptions such as sound, smell, feeling etc. Whereas sight directly refers to what meets the eye, when the eye is open. And there is also insight when we see things within. A sight beyond what meets the eye.

@Renaci 🤔 I once wondered whether or not, blind people could actually be racist.

Starting off with what I do know, colours are a foreign concept to blind people and being such, they're not able to tell red from blue, or for that matter, if someone is black or white or of some varying skin tone the way a sighted person can and yet, (provided they're not also deaf in addition to being blind) they can they can distinguish between the most subtle changes in sound.

Their hands can feel the difference between rough and smooth textures.

Their tongues can easily taste the difference between sweet and sour, salty and savoury.

Their noses can tell the difference between different fragrances and odors.

And many people (provided they're not mute) are quite adept at disguising their voices, so in that regard, it can be relatively easy to deceive the blind into thinking that a person of one race is that of another.

(or so it would seem...)