I think there’d be no cost to eliminating PTSD. Not everyone gets it from a given trauma, and vulnerability to it goes up with repeated traumas, so not getting PTSD seems to be well within the human range, and getting it doesn’t have any obvious advantages.
One of my friends describes one of the worst things about pain is that it’s boring—she has a bad hip. The pain from it is enough sometimes that she can’t think about anything else.
Pain like that—or worse—all the time might well be mind-breaking.
World without pain? The good news is that if you allow individual autonomy, everyone isn’t going to try giving up pain at the same time. There will be a chance to observe the effects on the early adopters.
Discussion of stories without pain for the characters
I think there’d be no cost to eliminating PTSD. Not everyone gets it from a given trauma, and vulnerability to it goes up with repeated traumas, so not getting PTSD seems to be well within the human range, and getting it doesn’t have any obvious advantages.
One of my friends describes one of the worst things about pain is that it’s boring—she has a bad hip. The pain from it is enough sometimes that she can’t think about anything else.
Pain like that—or worse—all the time might well be mind-breaking.
World without pain? The good news is that if you allow individual autonomy, everyone isn’t going to try giving up pain at the same time. There will be a chance to observe the effects on the early adopters.