Pain and Pleasure- כבוד ובזיון

There is an interesting relationship between pain and pleasure. Many philosophers have discussed the relationship and have argued the nature of the exact relationship. Are they opposites? Do they exist on a continuum? For example; You can ask "Where do you feel the pain" but you can't really ask "Where do you feel the pleasure. However one thing is pretty clear: Severe pain in general is more intense than severe pleasure. Any specific pain can be much more bad than almost any specific pleasure. On an absolute basis people will forego almost any pleasure not to endure severe pain in almost any sphere. That is to say that  pleasure, however great, cannot measure up to pain on a scale and a person will forego any pleasure not to experience pain even on the same scale even if it could be rated directly. No amount of pleasure can be experienced to even out any kind of severe pain. 

There is one exception to this rule. That is the pleasure of כבוד honor/respect vs בזיון dishonor/shame/disgrace. It seems empirically that people will be willing to suffer much בזיון for a much lesser amount of כבוד. The pleasure inherent in כבוד seems, in people's psyche, to immensely outweigh the pain (in the same dose) of בזיון. We see many examples of this in our everyday life. People will put themselves through horrible בזיון to attain, at the end, seemingly small amounts of perceived כבוד 

This write-up is not meant to explain the difference between the pleasure/pain of כבוד ובזיון vs the pleasure/pain of other types of pleasures and pains. This is just meant to point out the difference. Maybe it has to do with the fact that כבוד is, to some extent a more spiritual pleasure. Just food for thought.