RE: Pinprick Evauluation
March 12, 2011 at 5:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2011 at 5:51 pm by lilphil1989.)
(March 11, 2011 at 11:14 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: If someone experiences a million identical pinpricks, how can that possibly be a more painful experience than just the one pinprick?
If at any point during the duration of suffering the pinpricks, it ever becomes worse than suffering just the one pinprick, then they are not truly identical.
Thoughts?
They can't be identical. Once you've made the first pinprick, then all those that follow will be inflicted on a part of the body that's already injured. Furthermore, the greater the number of times you've stabbed yourself, the greater the severity of the injury will become.
Generally speaking, prodding at an injured body part tends to hurt more than prodding at a non-injured part, and the pain scales with the severity of the injury.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
