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Chapter 28
Survival Punishments

People Affected:  everyone
Specific Sensations:  bitter, sour, disgust, pain
Sensory Triggers:  toxins or trauma
Mental Effect:  negative
Key Feature:  the more concentrated the stimuli, the stronger the effect
Key Feature:  effect fades with repeated short-term exposure
Involuntary Expression:  momentary frowning
Physical Effect:  vomiting
Purpose
Survival punishments encourage everyone to avoid toxins and trauma.

Sensory Triggers
Bitter and sour are triggered by plant toxins.  Most poisonous plants are bitter.  Most rotting plants are sour.

Disgust is triggered by animal toxins.  Disgust is triggered by feces, urine, vomit or rotting flesh.  Disgust is not triggered by a person’s behavior.

Pain is triggered by physical trauma.

Mental Effect
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Survival punishments vary with a stimuli’s concentration.  The higher the stimuli’s concentration, the stronger the negative effect.  The closer you are to fecal matter, the more disgusting it smells.

Survival punishments fade with repeated short-term exposure.  Farmers working with manure do not notice its odor by the end of the day.  This short-term fading helps you.  If you cannot avoid a toxin or trauma, it does not help to continue punishing you.
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