In that case, your parents did not select you to be deaf. They simply selected you. They did not select you, and then cause you to be deaf. You were deaf by

In that case, your parents did not select you to be deaf. They simply selected you. They did not select you, and then cause you to be deaf. You were deaf by definition. Your alternative was not existing at all. In a sense, they saved your life. The outrage, from the perspective of the people who disagree, is that the parents didn't select an entirely different child.