Eli5 Why do we hate pain?
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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.
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