The deaf community is very much opposed to cochlear implants because they think there's something wonderful about being deaf that I think is hard for people with hearing to relate to. There are a lot of reasons and it's an enormous change in culture in the West that that would be a not just defensible but even honorable positionNot religion but that view of being deaf that being deaf is just a different cultural experience it's to be honored It's to be experienced, he says. He also argues that happiness is so overrated and doesn't always involve simple things that bring happiness.