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But an alternate way to phrase that is that being in pain supplies you with a new, generally overriding goal: to get out of pain. Unless you think that, in general, acquiring new goals is bad, or that, in general, you shouldn't have goals that aren't maximally compatible with each other, I don't see what's necessarily bad about acquiring the goal "get out of pain" - unless you have an independent reason to think that the situation which yields that goal (pain) is bad.
Goals are for achieving. If a high-priority goal is hard to satisfy, my utility function returns a low number.
My answer to the main question: pain does an important job, but there are better ways to do it. Heck, pain can even hinder the goal of getting out of pain, it's so bad.