From this perspective, cochlear implants seem ethically unproblematic. Nevertheless, Anita Silvers, a philosopher at San Francisco State University and a disability scholar and activist, has described such treatments as “tyranny of the normal,” aimed at adjusting the deaf to a world designed by the hearing, ultimately implying the inferiority of deafness.
从这个角度讲，人工耳蜗植入似乎在道德上并不存在问题。尽管如此，旧金山州立大学哲学家、残疾问题学者兼活动家阿妮塔·西尔弗斯曾将类此治疗统称为“来自正常人的专制”，其目的是让聋人适应由正常人所设计的世界，并最终隐含着聋人低人一等的含义。