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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
Patients with CIPA are at severe risk of anything from infection to brain damage. Not feeling the pain does not mean you have not been injured. You may have a wound, broken bone, or concussion that needs immediate medical attention, and not know it. CIPA patients regularly have to check their bodies for injury, from scrapes to burns to biting their tongues off in their sleep. I am getting the impression that you think we should develop immortality, rather than insensitivity to pain.
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i meant the basic element of pain is not a highly evolved trait
of course CIPA patients are having a medical ailment, in that they can't feel pain, it doesn't mean they're less evolved or more evolved
i mean the sensation itself is available to the most basic of animals
i think you're misunderstanding me
other interesting, maybe pertinent points, raised by some other posters on a more or less similar discussion:-
one said cows are basically pretty stupid animals, if you look into their eyes, it's like staring into a black hole, cows are just a mass source of meat for predators, and Native Americans used to drive droves of buffaloes and cattle off cliffs like lemmings
another said not only is eating meat questionable, the idea of domesticating animals as pets is questionable - it's creepy to get a pet and then train them to "human" habits, when obviously this is against the animalistic traits, like chewing on the rug, crapping on floors - then when you adopt a puppy and it can't be housetrained, you return it to the pet store