What danger might impaired senses present? How has modern form of noise and environmetal pollution afected ou

Answer 1

Impaired senses can put us in danger in many ways. I'll give you some examples.

A blind person cannot see danger approaching. If a car spins out of control people who see can try to get out of its way, while a blind person would not know whether its safer to stay put or jump out of the way (and then, in which direction, how far or whether there is something in the way).

A deaf person cannot hear danger approaching or warning shouted at them. If a deaf person is walking by a house and something falls down from the roof they neither hear a noise nor the warning shouts of the person behind them.

Someone who can't smell anything would not notice dangers like gas leaks or other dangers we generally detect with our nose. If there was an unnoticed gas leak and they got the idea to light a candle, you know what would happen.

Someone who doesn't have the sense of touch is probably in the most danger of all sense impaired, because they don't feel when they get injured and don't react quickly enough. If they touch something burning hot for example, they don't feel it and don't react fast enough and can end up with life-threatening injuries, while someone who has the sense of touch would feel the heat and avoid touch, or at least immediately take their hand off the hot item when they felt the heat and then started cooling the burnt body part right away.

Someone who can't taste anything is probably in the least danger of them all, but may be in some danger anyway, such as not noticing that something is unedible, spoiled or soaked in a dangerous liquid.

The more senses that are impaired, the more the danger of course.

As for modern noise pollution, I personally know the results of that. I have recently become hearing impaired as a result of noise pollution, with trains contributing the most in my case.