Talk:Doctrine 4/@comment-3069206-20100918013618

This is a remarkably apt observation. Even with the greatly enhanced view of pain that we have today.

The management of chronic pain is difficult. It's true, though, that extreme, chronic pain does lead to a much higher pain threshold, and an ability to have pleasure, despite the pain.

This isn't an easy subject. I think that some references to modern pain management might help put this into context. It isn't, as it might appear at first, a denial of the problem of pain, nor a trivialising of it.

It is, rather, a perceptive observation of the nature of pain that suggests that Epicurus had a close personal involvement with it and learned things that we are only confirming now.