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Physical pain is subjective too. What isn't? It also appears all the qualifiers are removed, for example * Often appears not to be listening when spoken to
by anonymars 1y ago
Physical pain is subjective too. What isn't?
It also appears all the qualifiers are removed, for example
* Often appears not to be listening when spoken to
* Frequently loses items required for tasks and activities
* Is frequently easily distracted by extraneous stimuli
* Often forgets daily activities
* Is frequently reluctant to engage in tasks which require sustained attention
and so on.
Everyone forgets a name or a word every once in a while and that doesn't mean they are senile, yet we recognize senility exists past a threshold.
- skeezyboy 1y agobut the threshold is vague and arbirtary.
- anonymars 1y agoAs it is with the other examples. So if it can't be measured it doesn't exist? Is this the dead spirit of Robert McNamara?
- skeezyboy 1y agoand theres nothing subjective about a broken leg, no two doctors would disagree on a broken leg like they would disagree over mental health conditions. you meant to say physical "health" is subjective, ie what we class as "unhealthy".
- anonymars 1y agoNo, I meant to say physical "pain", which is why we have subjective scales (1-10, faces) and one can't tell if someone's just faking it for drugs