A cheap, readily available, non-harmful-side-effects-ful, generally-effective way to deal with pain. And all of those adjectives are important: I want anyone who is in pain to be able to easily get hold of something that will stop it, effectively and without harming them. Because I hold the personal intuitive belief that a lot of human unpleasantness comes from people being in actual, physical pain that they think of as so normal that they don't even register it - but personal experience says that pain makes people tired, grumpy, less prone to empathy, massively impatient, short, and interferes intensely with cognitive processes, and that the more deprived a person is, the more likely they are to be continually in pain that they've backgrounded so that it's merely part of their landscape.
It's a small thing. And it's a thing I think might be broadly possible. And I'd like to see a world where with something simple and safe we could say to everyone, here, stop being in pain.
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Date: 2012-03-29 09:04 pm (UTC)It's a small thing. And it's a thing I think might be broadly possible. And I'd like to see a world where with something simple and safe we could say to everyone, here, stop being in pain.