Poll: You have to give up one sense - which one do you give up?

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Pretty much what the title says. You're suddenly forced to give up one of your 5 basic senses. Which one would it be, and why?

Personally, I'd go with smell. While there are plenty of good scents in the world, there are an equal number of bad scents to go along with the good ones.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Taste, easily. I can just sniff anything I really need to taste and get the same sensation anyway.

 

[SonofaJohannes]

I'd go with smell. It's the one I don't really need.

 

[Mace Tulio]

I've always wondered what it would be like living without the feeling of touch. You'd certainly have a high pain threshold.

 

[orangebandguy]

Touch, then I no longer feel pain and can join a circus.

 

[SaltyOrange]

Smell,I have a friend who cant smell almost anything because of a medical thing (I dont know exactly what it is) and he does well without it.

 

[binvjoh]

Either smell or taste.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Well, taste and smell are kind of interconnected, so giving up one would diminish the other.

I'd still give up my smell though.

 

[King Crab]

I'd give up my common sense. never found much use for it anyway.

 

[FalloutJack]

Smell, of course.

You see, my sense of smell is ALREADY inoperable, so what's the diff?

 

[KingofallCosmos]

50 sense..

wha.. i'm sorry.

 

[JackTHerbert]

Taste, that way I can eat healthy food for a change.

 

[Lionsfan]

Probably Taste. By the way I'm guessing this is in the wrong forum

Edit: Nevermind, I guess someone already moved it by the time my post was up

 

[Shazbah]

I basically have no sense of smell so its easy for me, but it doesnt bother me.
Also for everyone saying touch, have fun. Pain is a good thing, let's you know when you're damaging your body. Those without the sense of touch end up biting their tounges and the inside of their cheeks constantly (hope you like the taste of blood) and also end up having many infections causing them serious problems, pancarese (sp?) is the main one, end's up swelling up and can burst before being removed. It then infects the blood steam and the rest of the body. Any small cut will be ignored (cant feel it obviously) and can become infected, which in turn will be ignored. I saw a documentary on this, and a little girl had burnt all the skin off her tounge after drinking hot chocolate. She was so young the parents didn't realise she didnt have a sense of touch, and yeh, lots of blood...
In the end, instead of becoming a superhero, you end up dying from any little infection.
So yeh, I'd go with taste or smell, leaning towards smell.

 

[Furious Styles]

So long as it didn't affect my sense of taste, which it would, I'd go for smell just because I don't really care whether or not I can smell stuff.

 

[Flames66]

Smell. My nose is pretty naff anyway so it wouldn't be a big loss.

 

[Cogwheel]

Common sense.

Barely have any as it is, I wouldn't be losing much.

 

[William MacKay]

I've always wondered what it would be like living without the feeling of touch. You'd certainly have a high pain threshold.

actually, pain is a different sense. and only good if you regularly undergo torture. what if you acidentally left your hand in boiling water for half an hour.

 

[Continuity]

Personally, I'd go with smell. While there are plenty of good scents in the world, there are an equal number of bad scents to go along with the good ones.

Yes, but sometimes the ability to sense a bas smell can be very important, ranging from your own BO to a gas leak in the house. Smell isn't a trivial as people often think it is, not only that but the sense of taste is actually heavily reliant on the olfactory bulb. In other words if you cant smell then you cant taste either - this is why your sense of taste is diminished when you have a cold and you nose is blocked.

 

[plugav]

I think the sense of taste is the least likely to save my life, so I'd give up that if I had to.