Monday, October 10, 2011
Fear
Fear is one of the most simple emotions we feel, not convuluted or caused by other emotions, but something thats usually just hardwired into us. We fear because we want to protect ourselves, as is human nature. Fear is an emotion we get when we sense something harmful or wrong coming, we are hardwired to avoid that. In the sense of countries fearing other countries because of destruction, we just want to be the best, which is simply humanity, we need to be the best. Humanity is competitive, and fearing that someone else is better will drive us to better ourselves. We fear unknown because we dont want them to compromise us, whether its by simply being better than us, or by killing us. That compromises or human nature or humanity, and we cant be second.
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Yes fear is definitely hardwired in us, we still react to stress as our ancestors reacted to famine. By desiring carbohydrates!
ReplyDeleteI disagree, in the sense that it is hardwired into us. I would say that fear is caused by past experiences. Like katie said, we might fear other countries because of say the Sept. 11th attacks. We wouldn't fear Iraq because that's hardwired into us. Its the past experiences that shape our fear. Just my onion, something to think about.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying our fear of Iraq is hardwired into us, what I was getting at is the REASON we fear them is hardwired, the reason we fear them is because some of them want to destroy our culture, our humanity, and humans are hardwired to survive.
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