Infected Mushroom wrote:Please consider this very simple hypothetical:
You have a one time offer to gain a super power with no strings attached. The power is this: You will no longer feel any amount of physical pain and physical discomfort ever again. From this moment on, your body will only experience pleasurable or neutral sensations.
The advantage of this is that if you ever find yourself in a violent accident and/or become targeted by violence you won't feel a thing. Also, should you get really ill (ranging from simple stomach aches to life-crippling illnesses), you won't suffer.
You are not invulnerable, your vulnerability is still the same. It's just that your pain receptors will be "turned off."
The downside is that pain is "your friend" trying to tell you that your body is in trouble. So THEORETICALLY you could accidentally get burned and not realise it as it gets worse. Or... you may also not become aware that your health is in trouble without check ups.
Do you accept The Gift? Or do you reject it?
Why?
That is the absolutely worse superpower possible, I make a point of telling everyone Pain is good, Pain is your friend if you don’t feel pain then something is seriously wrong, either your body is facing serious trauma and your brain has shut off its pain receptors or else you are dead