While unpleasant, I don’t think being punched in the face is comparable to having kidney stones (a pain so excruciating that often morphine can’t touch it). It seems totally believable to me that such an experience might rank as among the worst in one’s life.
There are probably also two systems at play here: the experience itself and the lingering memory of it. It’s conceivable you might not remember some extremely painful experience as ‘bad’ (through post-hoc rationalisation, or the peak-end effect or similar); I’m not sure how to weight that against the actual raw badness of the experience itself.
While unpleasant, I don’t think being punched in the face is comparable to having kidney stones (a pain so excruciating that often morphine can’t touch it). It seems totally believable to me that such an experience might rank as among the worst in one’s life.
There are probably also two systems at play here: the experience itself and the lingering memory of it. It’s conceivable you might not remember some extremely painful experience as ‘bad’ (through post-hoc rationalisation, or the peak-end effect or similar); I’m not sure how to weight that against the actual raw badness of the experience itself.