What an odd name for a post title: Feeling Sense. Oughtn’t it at least be ‘Feeling Sensible’? But no. If must be Feeling Sense. Why? Because it is about the sense of touch.
So, is it (or is it not) an important sense? Ya, it is an important sense. More important than seeing or hearing? Well, blind and deaf people you meet because they’re still alive, but have you ever met a person who’s sense of feel wasn’t, like, working at all? Now, there is such a thing as nerve damage, but I don’t think a person who has absolutely no nerves would be as okay and alive and not dead as blind and deaf people. Yes, people depend a lot on their ears and eyes, but they also depend a lot on their sense of feel (I’m pretty sure).
From personal experience, I can say that running into something that I don’t realize is there hurts. Depending on the velocity of my motion in the direction of the thing that I run into that hurts me (yes, it hurt me, not the other way around; I don’t take the blame for that one!), the hurt will be worse. Not worser. Not worster, even. Worse. But if I don’t see or hear that that something is there that’s hurting me, and I can’t feel that I’m being hurt… well, that just sounds, well, damaging. What think ye?
