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My dad cannot feel pain in his feet- it is terrible, as he often doesn't know they are even injured until he leaves bloody footprints around the house, or infec
by zdragnar 5y ago
My dad cannot feel pain in his feet- it is terrible, as he often doesn't know they are even injured until he leaves bloody footprints around the house, or infection sets in deeply.
"Abolition" of all physical pain is an asinine desire that will only lead to our detriment.
- kazinator 5y agoOK, but suppose your brain could be notified that something is wrong with your foot, without it hurting?
- thewakalix 5y agoRelevant discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6qS9q5zHafFXsB6hf/serious-stories?commentId=ZRzd6TMzQTYZYDZBZ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6qS9q5zHafFXsB6hf/serious-st...
- zdragnar 5y ago> running across the hot desert sand in order to reach water would actually feel good And so people would seek it out. We already seek out every other form of pleasure- both positive (intimacy) and maladaptive (drugs). If anything, this sounds like attempting to over-fit for fitness.
- thewakalix 5y agoThey would deliberately set themselves up to need to run across hot sand to reach water? Why? (I understand why a standard human might do that, but how would stranding oneself in a desert be adaptive? And if it isn’t adaptive, why would a hypothetical “harmonized human” do it?)
- zdragnar 5y agoParkour, skydiving, downhill skiing, motorcycling, drag racing, autoerotic asphyxiation, Russian roulette. Out of all the things known to nature, humans find the most incredible ways to entertain and please themselves to death. If you remove the element of pain and replace it with pleasure, people will find new and exciting ways to chase that pleasure too. Run into unsafe neighborhoods at night and feel the joy of running back home. Roll around in broken glass and let the euphoria of stitching yourself back together set in. > And if it isn’t adaptive, why would a hypothetical “harmonized human” do it?) They'll do whatever you want them to do, because they are neither real nor human.
- qw 5y agoMaybe it will be possible to only numb specific areas, so that you would still feel pain if you accidentally hurt yourself.
- imtringued 5y agoThat means you want less pain, not no pain at all.
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- waste_monk 5y agoSomething similar happened to an old friend of mine - he didn't know he had diabetes, and due to the resulting nerve damage in his feet had no idea anything was wrong until after gangrene had set in. I haven't seen him in a while but I understand he came out of it pretty well, in that he "only" lost a few toes and managed to keep most of his foot. I hope your dad is managing ok and avoids this sort of mishap.
- nradov 5y agoEveryone should get an annual hemoglobin A1c screening blood test. There are a huge number of undiagnosed diabetics.