a. never. without pain we'd lose consequence for the small problems in life. imagine bumping your against the same wall everytime you go through that specific hallway, but because you never felt that pain, you'd never learn what it was that incited it. pain is the body's natural mechanism to warn you of danger. along the lines of feelings and less physical pain, i feel that would go down the classic route of you can't have one without the other. if you removed hurt from your thoughts, your neutral state would be your lowest, and being anything less than delighted would feel bad. if you continued to apply that thought process, it'd become some horrible never ending loop eventually ending at a loss of perceptible feelings, trash or otherwise.
q. is there a quote you think about a lot? why is it important to you?