(June 23, 2017 at 1:23 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Pain avoidance (and pain aversion) is certainly one of our motivators - but I'd caution against reducing every motivation to that singular purpose, or every exampe pof progress as having happened due to that motive. Accute suffering definitely makes us jump up and take notice, except when it doesn't, and we become listless and catatonic in the face of abject despair...or revert to a state of overt savagery; chasing down our neighbors and brutalizing them in what were once civilized streets.That's probably because violence mainly covers the majority of newscasts these days, so we are in effect, becoming immune and the shock value is wearing thin.
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