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because life is less painful for it, presumably. Blunted affect means everything is blunted. Anhedonia is the one that blunts one way.
edit: to illustrate: imagine going through high school. Would you prefer to do it blunted or unblunted?
I seem to prefer negative emotions to feeling nothing at all. Feeling nothing seems to be almost like not living. Is this why some people cut themselves and are suicidal?
It's certainly one of the reasons, although they also do it to escape or distract from what feels like overwhelming negative emotions.
But yeah, I'm with you on the negative emotions > no emotions. First time I got really depressed, I noticed and celebrated (as much as I was able) when I started being able to feel things again, even though most of those feelings were variations on 'sad'.
You may have high school confused with middle school. Either way, I would have preferred to know that I had some chance of avoiding death, or at least putting it off for millenia, and could afford to think about reality in a deliberate and organized way.