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In my opinion, pain is a way for us to know the condition of our bodies. e.g. without pain, walking into fire would damage our bodies but we wouldn't be aware of it. With pain we learn fairly quickly why we shouldn't walk into fire. All though pain isn't something we all like, it's still something that keeps us alive.
Just think how much easier it would be to die without pain.
It's useful.
also without pain, the sense "touch" would have to go as well by default.
Also, touch wouldn't go. CIPA is a disease that exists that dulls the bodies pain receptors to near null. Yet the patients who have this disease can still feel pressure, they just can't register pain. I could grab a patient by the arm and he'd know I was grabbing him but he wouldn't know if my grab was deadly.
This argument is built on the premise that being alive is the ultimate goal. Since this premise is so crucial for the argument I think it needs some attention. Why do you think staying alive is so important?
What would stop you from touching fire if it were not for pain? Most people would answer, the knowledge that fire can kill you, which is knowledge man kind would definitely have after our eons on this planet.
However, what if you didn't know the fire was touching you? The answer then is... nothing, and you'd die.
Pain protects us, the way way a loud alarm clock protects you from over sleeping.
Pain is definitely useful. Medically speaking, it tells you that something is wrong with your body. As wonderful as not feeling pain sounds, it would be extremely dangerous if you couldn't feel pain.
Pain is an evolutionary necessity, both as a physical and psychological reality. It notifies us of conditions averse to our well-being and continued existence. It is not pleasant, certainly, but that is hardly the point.
I think pain highers our awareness over our own well being, pain lets us know when our health is being deteriorated. When you think about it, every feeling, every sensation, everything we experience from finding our own offspring adorable, to physical and emotional pain, to happiness, to finding the taste of toxins displeasing, was probably all evolved, they all serve an evolutionary purpose. Afterall, when we started out as cells, we didn't exactly have any of that did we... so where did it all come from? It's easy to just think of these things as "just so" but nothing is truly "just so".
Yes pain is useful. We may not like it, but pain is the way we know something is wrong with our bodies. A person knows they have appendicitis because of the pain. If they didn't feel the pain, their appendix could burst and they could die.
In my opinon, i think that without pain, we wouldn't know what the point of life was because we'd get fed up of being al happy and feel all good and stuff.
If we didn't have pain, we would be unaware of our injuries and could die as a result of that. Pain makes sure that we can know that we are injured so that we can do what it takes to death with that injury and keep us alive.
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I'm reiterating, meaning I'm repeating. Where is your proof that pain and suffering is pointless? Look just slightly to the left at the arguments that give some details and explanation as to why pain is actually useful.
Your statement "people have the right to be happy" adds nothing to this debate, people can be happy with pain and suffering existing, if pain and suffering didn't exist people probably wouldn't exist, thus no happiness, no rights, no nothing.
People cannot be happy who have cancer, aids, and whatnot. When I am sick, I am not happy. I do not have to prove my personal opinions, just my claims. You made a claim too, so I will prove mine when you prove yours. As salaam u alikum. ;)
You are narrow minded and extremely prejudice to say that cancer patients cannot be happy. It shows your lack of understanding towards other people. I will be praying for you.
I have understanding towards people with cancer because I know the fact that people with cancer suffer. My mother is a survivor of stage 3 thyroid cancer, so I know what I am talking about. Thank you for admitting that cancer causes suffering.
No. Stop being so damn prejudice and educate yourself about life. If you want something that is so neat and simple as you'd lke then search "happy cancer children" in google images. People can feel incredible physical pain but still be happy because of people that love them. You're not going to take that away from them. I'm so sick of your prejudices.
Oh wow, my apologies I didn't know cancer, aids, and what not were the only types of pains that existed. I also though idk, stepping on a tack was painful, or putting your hand in fire was painful, or maybe idk, getting hit with a blunt object was painful. I mean when I was arguing, under the assumption that these things I described were pains, I was arguing that knowing of these pains, meant you could protect yourself from them. I guess I'm just a fool, since you can't protect yourself from aids, cancer, and what not, and since those are just obviously the only pains, they must not be useful as you said, since those are of course the only pains that exist...
No one here is saying rape is good or okay, got that?
What I'm saying is that when rape is happenening, if it were not for pain, victims wouldn't even know it's happening and wouldn't try to escape it.
Let's move away from rape for right now, to something easier to get out of. No one should be caught on fire, do you agree? Well in the real world people get caught on fire. Sorry, it's not good, no one wants it, but it happens. Let's say God exists. God created pain, so that when the shit like people catching on fire uncontrollable happens, they'll know that it's bad, and they will know that they need to get to some water.
What I'm saying is not that what causes pain is good, what I'm saying is that pain makes us aware of what's causing it, and lets us know to get the fuck away from it. Do you now see?
If you walk into a fire, you feel pain, to tell your boy to get out of the fire. Simple and clean. Can you prove pain is not useful instead of saying everyone deserves to be happy?
Pain does have a purpose , it tells when something is wrong . Like if I leaned on a stove and didn't realize nervous system would make me realize I had done some thing wrong and cause me pain . I would be very glad I had pain receptors in my body because if I didn't I could lean on the stove indefinitely and not be aware of it which would give me severe burns and I would to go to the hospital to avoid possible infection . So honestly take you pick , a short moment of pain and you get to go on with your life , or no pain and have your life stopped because you have to keep going to the hospital because your nervous system isn't causing you pain and telling you to stop doing whatever it is your doing . Physical pain is a one of humans greatest survival tools .
