[Serious] The Purpose of Pain

[Fake Messiah]

Pain is an awareness of bodily damage.

Creatures with an awareness that their body has been damaged or an awareness that their body could be damaged by remembering past events have the capacity to live longer and live to an age where they can reproduce.

Pain helps keep us alive

One can also ask "What are the purpose of eyes or ears or any of our sensory organs that make us aware of our environment ?"

Pain let's us know that some kind of damage has taken place.

Sure, if you stand on hot sand pain comes in handy for you to know not to fry your feet, but there is a lot of unnecessary pain that seems to exist just to torture people.

And pain is also a reminder of many truly complicated diseases.
Like this scene from the movie"Lorenzo's Oil", where the boy is going through excruciating pain for which you may argue that is useful so that people know which organs and body parts are under attack by the disease, but then you have to ask "Why does such brutal disease exist that is so complicated to cure that people still can not cure it?"




Or Julia Sweeney describing her brother's pain:

My brother Mike, who had cancer, suffered unspeakably for a very long time. Eye lids freezing open and his eyes drying up, canker sores all over his throat and he couldn't swallow, weeks and weeks and then months of gut wrenching vomiting and nausea, before he then died.

Not exactly helpful.