If you could be given a drug that removes all pain, with no side effects, would you take it?

[WhiskyHotel3]

What do you think?

[Spaceception]

*Inserts some philosophical question about what pain is, and what it means to different people*

 

If you mean physical pain, then, yeah, I guess, but mental pain can (At least sometimes) help you improve over time, so you don't make the same mistake, yadda yadda.

Edited April 29, 2017 by Spaceception

[ZentroCatson]

Definitely no. Pain is a kind of alarm system, telling you that something's wrong with your body. So even though pain is painful () its there to protect you from possible harm.

[0111narwhalz]

No. Heck no. Pain is a tool to prevent damage. Without pain, you wouldn't care about that hot stove or that impact, and you'd likely go along with your day like normal after suffering a sucking chest wound or something. Having no pain would mean that you need to perform continual conscious evaluations of your status to make sure you aren't sustaining damage. It would be like losing the proprioception in your legs and walking visually.

And if pain had no good reason to exist, why does it? Clearly, the reaction we have to such a trivial injury as a stubbed toe would represent a loss of efficacy... but pain is still around and quite universal among those animals with nervous systems. If it wasn't useful, it would have been phased out aeons ago.

[WinkAllKerb'']

i pass ... weird ... [insert rng]

[razark]

Depends.

In my normal day-to-day life?  No.

If I was recovering from surgery or a serious accident?  Yes.

If I suffered from chronic pain like my wife?  Hell yes.

[maceemiller]

With no side effects then yes however no such drug exists. To take this drug though would imo mean you've given up in which case euthanasia is the following step. I'll stick to aspirin for now.....

[munlander1]

So, instead of pain I got a different alarm about physical damage, yeah. But if I had no other way besides looking, no. 

[adsii1970]

No.

[Spacetraindriver]

I might be wrong, bit isn't pain the same thing as feeling (physical) things? Just exageratted? If so than no...Mental pain is a big yes for me though. Also: is it in pill form? If it is than no. I really dont like pills. 

[0111narwhalz]

23 minutes ago, Spacetraindriver said:

I might be wrong, bit isn't pain the same thing as feeling (physical) things? Just exageratted?

Not necessarily. There are receptors which fire specifically for damage. Some call them nociceptors.

[Urses]

Name me Junkie but for this drug i would sell one kidney...

Chronical pain is realy....

Urses 

[razark]

@WhiskyHotel3

A clarification, please.  Is this drug's effect temporary, or permanent?

 

I'm wondering if changing that answer would change people's responses, too.

[ZooNamedGames]

Having been severely depressed at one point of my life, I think this question is better framed in the idea of emotional pain. Something that no amount of industrial strength pain killers can resolve (and to an extent, even anti-depressants won't cure it). So in reference to that kind of pain- I'll likely be the odd man out and say I'd agree. Emotional pain like what I experienced is rough, and if there was an option to skip it and be able to just focus on my life.

[Red Iron Crown]

 

[Just Jim]

Because of my screwed-up back, I would probably try it... but I say this with a lot of skepticism... I've already tried many high-end pain killers that claimed the same thing.. and they lied.... 

[adsii1970]

I also have chronic pain, but on some days it's the pain that helps me know I am still alive. Yes, I do have relatively "pain free" days, but to be honest with you, I get strength from that pain. Some days it's knowing the pain didn't "own me" and hold me back that helps me face the next day...

[WhiskyHotel3]

4 hours ago, razark said:

@WhiskyHotel3

A clarification, please.  Is this drug's effect temporary, or permanent?

 

I'm wondering if changing that answer would change people's responses, too.

 

Perma

[WinkAllKerb'']

as i don't really do the difference between, breathing, sport, eating, drinking and "drug" and a few others neuro things ... well ...

from a neuro aspect (and all energy recovery concern unlinked from all the other neuro aspect) .... ... ...

Edited April 30, 2017 by WinkAllKerb''

[Bill Phil]

To quote Shatner:

"I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!"

[HebaruSan]

This exists, but it's not a drug, it's a horrific disorder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain

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Because feeling physical pain is vital for survival, CIP is an extremely dangerous condition. It is common for people with the condition to die in childhood due to injuries or illnesses going unnoticed. Burn injuries are one of the more common injuries.

[...]

Children with this condition often suffer oral cavity damage both in and around the oral cavity (such as having bitten off the tip of their tongue) or fractures to bones. Unnoticed infections and corneal damage due to foreign objects in the eye are also seen.

 

[kerbiloid]

Life is pain. No.

[razark]

7 hours ago, WhiskyHotel3 said:

Perma

In that case, I must update mine to:

14 hours ago, razark said:

Depends.

In my normal day-to-day life?  No.

If I was recovering from surgery or a serious accident?  Yes. No.

If I suffered from chronic pain like my wife?  Hell yes.

 

[NSEP]

Only pain that keeps to stick for hours, at that point i think i know its bad for my body, and i should improve.

[linuxgurugamer]

15 hours ago, Urses said:

Name me Junkie but for this drug i would sell one kidney...

Chronical pain is realy....

Urses 

I already donated one of my kidneys

Saved a life, there is nothing like that sort of feeling.