Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
Personally I'd absolutely want my vision restored and I can explain why with a very simple example.
When I was in Egypt I remember seeing the great gates of thebes at Luxor, a massive, 60 foot high construct of stone which even makes western cathedrals feel, small, especially when you realise how many thousand years it's stood.
With my level of vision I could at least see how high the things were, if I'd not had that vision I couldn't have told even that.
However, people I was with told me the hole thing was carvedd, all the massive size of it covered in intricate, still legeable carvings right up to the top.
Not only the shear scale of the thing was impressive, but the fact that people had taken such a massive amount of time to work every single inch of the stone.
Yes, one can be told this, one could even I suppose get a 3d printer and a tactile representation, but nothing is going to compare to the experience that sighted people had of just seeing the huge thing looming against the sky.
this isn't to say that I constantly pine over having vision (though the way people dismiss me because of being blind in this crappy country does sort of piss me off), however, that shear aesthetic experience, that sense of wonder and magnitude is something that a blind person simply cannot get.
therefore even if we were living in a completely accessible world, even if all information was presented in alternative sources, a world of flying cars and no bad attitudes, in fact a pretty idealised utopia, blind people would still be missing something, missing an experience, a form of appreciating the world that sighted people get free access to.
Of course, this isn't to say all sighted people take advantage of this either, anymore than all people who can hear learn to appreciate music, but at least they have the opportunity.
So for me, if nerve regeneration ever becomes a thing, sign me up, and Mrs. Dark would definitely say the same as well, indeed for her, even more so since at least I have the advantage of some access to vision such as colour and light, for all there is a huge amount of stuff I miss.
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