I would argue that being able to use your hand when you have reduced sensation in your fingertips (like your Pizza bakers) is like walking around with the tips of your toes asleep. Normal, reasonable, and not hard to do. But imagine if both of your legs are completely asleep. You wouldn’t be able to walk at all.

If don’t disagree that Zombies don’t feel pain – or at least don’t acknowledge the pain – but to say they can’t feel ANYTHING just doesn’t make logical sense to me.

I worked at a pizza place for years, and almost all of the guys working there on the ovens inevitably after a year or so of working there would either lose all feeling in their fingertips or have severely diminished sensations in their fingertips because they’d burnt them so many times. This didn’t mean they couldn’t use their fingers to the full extent.

There are also, rare instances of humans who are born without the ability to perceive pain. Their senses are all fully intact, except they feel no pain.

My own grandmother after her stroke was capable of using her hands to some extent, but at one point put her hand in a frying pan that was hot while talking to my sister, and had no idea she’d done it, she felt no pain from the action.

Diminished sensation does not automatically equate with diminished pain perception, although they are definitely linked.

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