Ways to Value Pain & Suffering:

The insurance industry has done a fantastic job of brainwashing people into believing that there is no real value in "pain & suffering". For those who have bought into this line of thinking, they are convinced that this is just extra money that serves no purpose in awarding.

Unfortunately, these people are not viewing the real cost of pain & suffering.

Economic viewpoint of the value of "pain & suffering" is seen in medicine itself. When a dentist drills a tooth, he might charge almost an equal sum for a shot to kill the pain. We spend an untold amount of money each day to stop headaches and similar aches and pains. You would never consider surgery without an anesthetic, and we know how much an anesthesiologist would charge or how much the anesthetic cost would be. Pain has a dollar value recognized in money transactions in the everyday world.

The next person who tells you that there is no monetary value to "pain and suffering" you should tell them that the next time they have surgery, they should just ask to be tied down tightly so they can't move and disrupt the surgery, and just not take any anesthesia, because its too expensive, and there is no value in them avoiding any pain and suffering. Why should insurance pay for their pain and suffering if they don't believe there is any value to it? Then you will find out if they really believe there is no value to pain and suffering and avoiding pain and suffering (at least when it comes to them). My guess is that even the most hardened opponents to giving money for pain and suffering only feel that way when it comes to paying money for other people's pain and suffering, not their own.

Another way of viewing the value of pain & suffering is from a religious viewpoint. When God created the universe, he also created a hell. Hell is not a place of death but a place of PAIN. The ultimate punishment, therefore, is pain, not death.

Yet one more way to realize the value of avoiding pain is in the creation of our own country. When our country was founded, they put into the Constitution that our Government could not inflict pain. No cruel and unusual punishment. In our country you can sentence a person to die, but you cannot sentence them to pain.

People have prayed for death, but nobody prays for pain. There is a value to it and a value to not having it. Don't let anyone try to convince you of anything else.

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