• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    We are genetically configured to survive at all costs. That fear is simply the wiring in your head ensuring you do what you can to survive.

    You can safely compartmentalize it. store it up there with your irrational fear of clowns.

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      2 days ago

      That’s not true. It doesn’t explain noble sacrifices. The teacher in the US who is willing to put themselves between their students and the mass shooter is one example.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, the teacher wasn’t afraid at all. Nope, no genetics causing that teacher to be afraid. /s