Context: Physical pain is an important political topic in relation to various issues, including pain management policy, drug control, animal rights or animal welfare, torture, and pain compliance. In various contexts, the deliberate infliction of pain in the form of corporal punishment is used as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behaviour deemed unacceptable. In some cultures, extreme practices such as mortification of the flesh or painful rites of passage are highly regarded.

Question: What type of topic is physical pain important in relation to many issues?
Answer: political

Question: Corporal punishment is a form of what type of pain?
Answer: deliberate infliction

Question: What is corporal punishment used as retribution for?
Answer: an offence

Question: How does pain inform attitudes deemed unacceptable?
Answer: deter

Question: What kind of practices do some cultures highly regard?
Answer: extreme

Question: What is animal rights in relation to various issues?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What important political issues relate to infliction of pain?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What reasons are given for pain?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What cultural practices are highly regarded as torture?
Answer: Unanswerable