[saurik]

Clearly, we are going to have to do this in a scale (I keep wanting to say logarithmic but I know that isn't right) where 10 essentially maps to infinity, and you can only get asymptotically close to that; what we then really need is a good calibration pain for 5... something everyone probably experiences roughly the same due to physical constraints on the cause of the pain, such as "ice cream headache" (...which, come to think of it, is actually a pretty brutal pain level; if I had to live the rest of my life with that level of pain, I might consider giving up? it probably helps that the sources of most structural body pain aren't constant--you usually can massively lower how much pain you are experiencing by removing all forces and movement--and so I am failing to truly model what those pains would be like if they were constantly at their worst for the rest of my life).