(November 29, 2016 at 10:21 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote:(November 29, 2016 at 1:53 pm)abaris Wrote: Just think of it that way. The risk of having an accident driving to the airport is far greater than the flight.
Say that to the people who died in the crash. And to the plane victims of 9/11 as well. I'm sure they thought the same when they got on board. That's why I'm terrified of planes in general and the only way I could be made to set foot on a plane is either when I'm already dead or heavily sedated, so that I wouldn't know it happened when the plane falls. Gravity forgives no one, you know? What goes up must go down eventually. Besides, if nature wanted to us to fly, it would have made us with wings.
I'm a very nervous flier too, so to some degree I get it. But at the same time I do realise it's a very irrational fear. I know the statistics, it is by far the very safest way to travel, and if you were going to have that mentality of "something might go wrong" you would never leave your house.
I'm actually looking into seeking some professional help for my fear, because I'm not going to let it stop me from travelling. My Dad spent most of his adult life basically trapped in Northwestern Europe because he couldn't be dragged onto a plane drugged, and I never got to see his parents' home country until I was 21 as a result.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
