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Robert Anton Wilson once essentially said that any society that hasn't yet found a cure for pain is still barbaric. Right now, opiods are the closest thing we
by mapontosevenths 1y ago
Robert Anton Wilson once essentially said that any society that hasn't yet found a cure for pain is still barbaric.
Right now, opiods are the closest thing we have to that, but they are like Cannabis in that they also have many less useful/safe side effects.
One day someone will find a drug that obliterates pain without damaging consciousness, and I suspect that society will become a more evolved place.
- timschmidt 1y ago> One day someone will find a drug that obliterates pain without damaging consciousness That has side effects too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain#Signs_and_symptoms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pa...
- mapontosevenths 1y agoI once knew a man who was one of the "Frozen Chosin" of the Korean war. He couldn't feel anything in his feet due to the frostbite. It was a constant source of injury and infection for him. I suspect that whatever a "cure for pain" looks like it will involve modulating those signals to be lower, rather than eliminating them.