Frankenstein monster is kinda like Trans folks or people

[Sheldon]

We cannot know what another person's pain is like. We assume it is the same kind of thing that we feel, because we describe it in the same way and react in the same way. This is what intersubjectivity means.

Let's try a simple thought experiment involving a blow torch and your scrotum. Due to >Insert Daft Bafflegab Here< we can't know for certain that you're actually suffering from the application of a welding flame to your genitals. We cannot know what your pain is like. The only objective evidence that we have is a little testicular charring and a rather unpleasant roasting smell, but for all we know you're having the time of your life.

Or do we assume that what I've written above is utter absurdity, that any needless suffering is morally wrong regardless of variations in experience, and that anybody supporting said suffering is misguided at best and probably ought to be placed on a watch list?

Also worth noting that pain is not just subjective, but relative, since we are all born with differing pain thresholds. Very occasionally people are born with no pain threshold at all, and can feel no pain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-h...s-47719718

"Jo Cameron only realises her skin is burning when she smells singed flesh. She often burns her arms on the oven, but feels no pain to warn her.


That's because she is one of only two people in the world known to have a rare genetic mutation.

It means she feels virtually no pain, and never feels anxious or afraid."

And of course whilst we are born with a pain threshold we cannot alter, parenthetically we can alter our pain tolerance.

Maybe she's just a very good liar @Belacqua? Then again...

"Dr Devjit Srivastava - sent her to pain geneticists at University College London (UCL) and Oxford University.

After tests, they found gene mutations which meant that she did not feel pain like most people."

Wouldn't that be objective evidence? Don't ask me I am not a geneticist...