people exist that don’t suffer from physical damage because they don’t identify with their physical body
Just to clarify: you don’t mean that they don’t get physical damage, you mean they don’t mind getting physical damage?
Do they, then, not bother doing anything to fix any physical damage they incur? That doesn’t seem like it’s obviously a good tradeoff.
It seems like what you actually want is, roughly, (1) not to feel pain, (2) to be aware of damage, (3) to prefer not to get damaged, and (4) for that preference not to lead to distress when damage occurs. It sounds as if the people you’re talking about have managed 2 and 4 but not 1, and on the face of it their way of dealing with 4 seems like it would (if it actually works) break 3.
Just to clarify: you don’t mean that they don’t get physical damage, you mean they don’t mind getting physical damage?
Do they, then, not bother doing anything to fix any physical damage they incur? That doesn’t seem like it’s obviously a good tradeoff.
It seems like what you actually want is, roughly, (1) not to feel pain, (2) to be aware of damage, (3) to prefer not to get damaged, and (4) for that preference not to lead to distress when damage occurs. It sounds as if the people you’re talking about have managed 2 and 4 but not 1, and on the face of it their way of dealing with 4 seems like it would (if it actually works) break 3.