[ikeboy]

Even if it's discontinuous, it still needs to grow incredibly slowly. The ratio of pain neurons that fire for a speck versus for torture over 50 years is nowhere near 3||3. You need a function that grows so slow that outweighs 3||3, which is damn near impossible for any plausible function.

[zyxley]

I care about impact on people, not neuronal activity, and the point I'm making is that there's a minimum below which the real impact on a given person, considered in aggregate with the impact of everything else that's a part of being human, is effectively nil.

[ikeboy]

So at some point you need to say that "person being hurt X" is fine, but "person being hurt X+ one speck" is not.