{"id":690,"date":"2004-03-12T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T17:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/12\/the-problem-of-living-without-pain\/"},"modified":"2004-03-12T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T17:46:52","slug":"the-problem-of-living-without-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"The problem of living without pain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare11.com\/news\/news-article.asp?NEWS_ID=60120\">Very interesting article<\/a> about a girl born with a rare genetic defect that prevents her from feeling physical pain. Although I had realized in the abstract that feeling pain is necessary for self-protection, I hadn&#8217;t really considered the specifics. For instance, the girl&#8217;s self-explorations destroyed one eye and permanently damaged another before her parents realized that she had to be outfitted with goggles. (To bad the article is written in a gross faux-touching style.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianahsieh.com\/blog\/2004_02_29_weekly.html#107824849598158984\">Donna at NoodleFood considers <\/a>how this little girl&#8217;s case might apply to Peter Singer&#8217;s utilitarian philosophy, which is all about minimizing pain:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">For Singer, she can still experience happiness. Yet the harms this small child routinely does herself demonstrates the great value of pain to human and animal life. Although particular pains are certainly experienced as unquestioningly bad, our capacity to feel pain provides an enormous protection against injury. So achieving the utilitarian goal of minimizing or eliminating pain would actually be quite harmful to creatures.<\/div>\n<p>Read (as, AATS, they say) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianahsieh.com\/blog\/2004_02_29_weekly.html#107824849598158984\">the whole thing<\/a>.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=purchase-deltasone-on-the-internet\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting article about a girl born with a rare genetic defect that prevents her from feeling physical pain. Although I had realized in the abstract that feeling pain is necessary for self-protection, I hadn&#8217;t really considered the specifics. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,98,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabled-rights-issues","category-site-and-admin-stuff","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}