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Scarry asserts that language fails to adequately express the experience of pain as it destroys a person's ability to produce language. Therefore, pain destroys human consciousness.

There's an implicit premise here that the production of language is synonymous with human consciousness.

The implicit premise is incorrect. I also disagree that pain destroys our ability to perceive other things. Pain focuses the mind.