[quote=@Multifarious]
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If you really, [i]really[/i] wanted to stretch it, you could boil it down to opinion, since masochists do exist.
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[quote=@Etcetera]
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That's not what I'm saying. The concept of pain can't be explained. It just is.
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By that logic, surely the concept of taste or touch can't be explained either. Why can't it be a feeling the mind creates in response to something bad--a feeling that it generally considers bad? After all, touch is a feeling the mind creates in response to what an object is like under your touch.