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There’s a difference between being tortured in the “to death” sense, and milder forms of suffering. Hunger pangs, mild sleep deprivation, pushing through exhaus
by ip26 1y ago
There’s a difference between being tortured in the “to death” sense, and milder forms of suffering. Hunger pangs, mild sleep deprivation, pushing through exhaustion, mild hypothermia, etc are a form of suffering. But they are also something people are routinely willing to subject themselves to during sport.
I would like anesthesia for surgery, but I still participate in endurance sports…
- autarch 1y agoI think endurance sports (and many other sports, like rock climbing, which I enjoy), are a mix of type 1 and type 2 fun (https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale). There may be some suffering while you do it, but the overall experience is positive when you look back at it. This is quite different from surgery without anesthesia, which would definitely not be fun in the end, at least for most people.
- madaxe_again 1y agoIt wouldn’t be fun, no, but it would sure as hell make you appreciate not undergoing surgery without anaesthesia. From a personal perspective, I spent years suffering from a mystery illness (ah, the joys of tropical diseases), and it made me appreciate the times when I wasn’t having an acute episode immensely, which otherwise would have been “ordinary”. My wife would be like “there are leaves all over the driveway!” and I would be like “yes, aren’t they beautiful?”.