So your saying we need to harden up, and stop being softies?
I don't know about you, but when I'm 60 I still want to have reasonably healthy looking hands, and somehow I don't see that working with hardening up your hands.
btw, you can go past the pain treshold, but then when they get warm again, all of the sudden you start noticing the cracks, not pleasant, you can't really stop your hands from getting dehydrated unless you properly protect them.
Next thing you say is that hand cream is for women only.