To clarify: I already accept the objections about "burdensome details" and "better plans". I'm only interested in the subjective anticipation angle.
ETA: sometime after writing this comment I stopped understanding those objections, but anticipation still interests me more.
This is our monthly thread for collecting arbitrarily contrived scenarios in which somebody gets tortured for 3^^^^^3 years, or an infinite number of people experience an infinite amount of sorrow, or a baby gets eaten by a shark, etc. and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions. As everyone knows, this is the most rational and non-obnoxious way to think about incentives and disincentives.