A Cure for Pain
Pain. No one likes it. (except for masochists, but anyway) But of course it is useful. For instance, it tells us when our food is burning us! But that is now. What if, in the future we had super-skin, highly-resistant to damage and scuffing? It would make sense to cure pain then, especially since stuff that used to hurt, just shouldn’t anymore, because it doesn’t damage us!
However, we suck at curing pain right now. Sure we have anaesthetics, but those are only useful in certain situations. So what is our best painkiller where you can maintain consciousness? Morphine? No offense to morphine-addicts, but as a “painkiller” it sucks. I mean it doesn’t really STOP pain, so much as it covers it up with crazy feelings and hallucinations or whatever, much like those “air-freshening” sprays cover up odors by filling the room with artificial lavender and citrus. And then there are plenty of other so-called painkillers, which actually work by “relieving the symptoms that cause pain”. That’s kind of sneaky, I think. Well, we are probably going to need some advanced micro-neurology before we come up with anything really good.
But by that point, we can probably cure more than just physical paint. We can make it so we don’t feel sad, or frustrated, or whatever. Would that be great? Some people say without bad things good things don’t have meaning, but maybe those people are the ones who don’t have meaning. Think about it: what if we cured, for example, hate. Does love lose meaning? I mean is hate even the opposite of love or is it apathy or something else? The truth is there are no clear opposites, and getting rid of the bad feelings could only stop the good things if they were even related. Duh.
I know what you are thinking. “But if people didn’t feel guilt or shame, wouldn’t they do bad things all the time?” No. They wouldn’t do bad things because they would have the painful desires that make people do bad things, like hunger, and lust, and greed, and etc. People would all become boring hippie-buddhas who love everything as it is and never want to do anything because they are just happy. (again except for masochists) And honestly, that would suck.
So basically what I am saying is you might as well enjoy your morphine if you have any.
kthxbye.