Seth’s Reviews > Pain: A Very Short Introduction > Status Update

> Pain has been conceptualized as always a malign experience that should be reduced or eliminated. Yet... pain is essential... Without pain, as anyone with congenital analgesia will attest, we are at enormous risk. Pain... [causes] us to protect injured parts... In this most fundamental sense... pain is an unmitigated good.

This is pure, philosophically unsound copium, and factually incorrect (look up Jo Cameron)