I *have* encountered people who say that fear appears to be pure negative for them, but I find it very motivating.
(Meanwhile I encountered someone today saying *anger* can motivate people in a positive way, and I absolutely do not know what it would even mean for anger to be healthy in a social context with very few and *very* restrictive outlets for violent urges. If you take anger and remove the desire for violence, what's *left*? Other than, like, a chest ache, and an abstract intellectual belief that [entity] was wrong to do [thing].
Comparative emotions are hard.)
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>>nonetheless I have no regrets about having hacked my [not-pain-tolerance] up to a level where the pain from injuries no longer tends to be all that unpleasant.
But you're still *aware* of the pain, and you're still aware that pain tends to be a sign of something wrong.
Is there an analogous thing here? Can people receive internal signals that their situation is unacceptably dangerous and they need to do something about it, signals which are often accurate and which they intellectually decide to take seriously by default, without experiencing the quale of anxiety? Is there a form of anxiety that asks politely?
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(Meanwhile I encountered someone today saying *anger* can motivate people in a positive way, and I absolutely do not know what it would even mean for anger to be healthy in a social context with very few and *very* restrictive outlets for violent urges. If you take anger and remove the desire for violence, what's *left*? Other than, like, a chest ache, and an abstract intellectual belief that [entity] was wrong to do [thing].
Comparative emotions are hard.)
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>>nonetheless I have no regrets about having hacked my [not-pain-tolerance] up to a level where the pain from injuries no longer tends to be all that unpleasant.
But you're still *aware* of the pain, and you're still aware that pain tends to be a sign of something wrong.
Is there an analogous thing here? Can people receive internal signals that their situation is unacceptably dangerous and they need to do something about it, signals which are often accurate and which they intellectually decide to take seriously by default, without experiencing the quale of anxiety? Is there a form of anxiety that asks politely?