I don’t see what’s necessarily bad about acquiring the goal “get out of pain”
Well if the pain hurts (which it does), and you don’t know how to stop the pain, and the pain does not direct you to do things that make the pain go away, then I think the answer’s pretty obvious. The pain isn’t changing your goals; it’s just making it harder to think about them, and thus achieve them.
It seems that you can have a goal without any clear way to achieve it. If you’re in pain and don’t know how to fix that (short of, presumably, suicide), you can still have the goal “get out of pain”. I think I could legitimately be said to have the goal “live forever”, even though I don’t know how to do that. Are you saying it’s bad to have goals that you don’t know how to achieve?
Well if the pain hurts (which it does), and you don’t know how to stop the pain, and the pain does not direct you to do things that make the pain go away, then I think the answer’s pretty obvious. The pain isn’t changing your goals; it’s just making it harder to think about them, and thus achieve them.
It seems that you can have a goal without any clear way to achieve it. If you’re in pain and don’t know how to fix that (short of, presumably, suicide), you can still have the goal “get out of pain”. I think I could legitimately be said to have the goal “live forever”, even though I don’t know how to do that. Are you saying it’s bad to have goals that you don’t know how to achieve?
My comment mentioned that the pain keeps you from thinking.
So, if the goal is something that you:
a) don’t know how to achieve
b) are unlikely to learn how to achieve
c) have trouble thinking about anything due to the existence of it,
d) don’t even agree with the goal,
e) your health does not suffer from not pursuing the goal
Then yes, taken together, it’s obvious why goals meeting a-e are bad.