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Old 02-07-2008, 08:09 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Erki View Post
Well, physically it's quite straight forward. My question was more philosophical, or so. Kinda like why is there pain and suffering in the world.

And even if they forget it, why does the pain still have to be there?
Evolutionarily, pain is a response to trauma. It's unpleasant so as to spur you to instantaneous action to address a major problem.

The body sees childbirth (or just poorly managed childbirth?) as trauma and responds with pain. Evolution has been nice enough to issue some pretty nifty endorphins as part of the process, though.
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