the point of debilitating pain?

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Obviously pain (even severe pain) is essential to human survival. But why would the body generate a degree of pain that essentially cripples the individual, leaving them basically helpless? How is this beneficial?

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I would think that in our evolutionary past, pain that was “debilitating” very often indicated a fatal condition. There was no selective pressure for us to develop a pain ceiling.

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