(July 8, 2016 at 6:37 am)SteveII Wrote:(July 8, 2016 at 3:07 am)paulpablo Wrote: If someone punched me in the face I'd feel discontent. Not out of choice but a natural inherent physical reaction to pain and an emotional reaction to a physical assault that's common on most healthy humans.
Your immediate reaction to getting punched in the face would not have bearing on your overall happiness or contentment. Being in pain has nothing to do with it. Being bitter, holding a grudge, getting revenge, etc. would all affect your overall contentment and therefore happiness.
Being in pain can definitely affect my happiness.
That makes sense in a biological evolutionary way, physical pain is your body's way of saying I'm going to send this feeling of severe discomfort to you so that you don't do that again.
I'm not saying people in pain can't laugh or be happy but it has a definite affect on your happiness without doubt.
If being in pain caused no discomfort and was easily ignored to the point of easily feeling contentment and well being while being burned that would be dangerous for the human body.
Say if you were to do a poll of the the happiness of every person who was on the rack (old english torture device) I think all of them would be unhappy, pretty much purely because of the pain of being stretched til you hear your tendons snap, or maybe it's the muscle or bone that snaps first I can't remember.
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