Eli5 Why do we hate pain?
In: Biology
Pain is the signal that our body is undergoing or has undergone damage. This alerts the person to pay attention to the source of pain and therefore avoid further damage.
Pain is, to most people, unpleasant and to be avoided. It is a natural instinct – even a baby reacts to pain signals.
I don’t know, I feel good when I hurt myself. I use either a knife but don’t actually hurt myself, just enough so the pains here or a belt, on the back.
But it might be because your brain analyzes the pain as a danger and you need to flee not to get hurt badly. After all, pain is an alarm.
Pain is a signal your body uses to tell you it’s injured in some way. Being injured reduces the chance that you’ll continue living, so your natural response is going to be disliking/moving away from the source of the pain.
However, some people do like pain.
There is usually a high risk of harm from things that give us pain. Pain is like an alarm, one of many alarms your body uses to say there is a hazard that will potentially cause damage to safety, health, security, etc. So pain is designed to alarm us to these threats to deal with them. And the alarm wouldn’t be as effective if it was enjoyable. In fact there are rare cases of people being born without this alarm system. And they don’t live very long lives usually. It’s hard to always be alert and notice how you are internally and externally 24/7 without this built-in alarm system.
Latest Answers