3) Nietzsche is wrong (probably something I'd say frequently about Nietzsche) as far as I'm concerned. I eat spicy food, but not because of enjoying pain. To me, enjoying pain is perverse. Spice increases the vividness of taste, and as a person whose senses, including taste, are wearing down with age, this is gratifying. But there are foods that are too spicy for me, and I won't eat them. I tried the recent fad of Nashville hot chicken twice, and since then I avoid it.

6) Indeterminate sentences can be horrifying, but so can determinate ones. In either case, the question is, are you being too draconian?