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Pain isn't "an indication of excessive discomfort", it's a neurological and then cognitive reaction to specific physiological reactions to certain types of stimulus. Also, comfort is not the same as absence of discomfort.
When it comes to comfort, different subjects will respond entirely differently to identical stimuli, e.g. variation in saddle shape. This is what subjective means; it has nothing to do with getting subjects to report their feelings accurately.