Is pain really all that bad?

I wrote one more post Sunday night after the five you see below, but put it on my other blog.  It's an idea that I had about a week ago, actually, ... about the relationship between pleasure and pain, and whether it's as obvious as it looks that pain is really all that bad.  You can find it here:

Pleasures, pure and mixed

For your benefit, I should add that it has a lot in common with the argument I make (at somewhat greater length) in my post three years ago on "Pornography and erotic madness".  Maybe I should cross-post that article to the public, philosophical blog as well, or maybe I want to tidy it up first, ... just a bit, ... before I do.