Most "irrational" fears do have rational basis to them though, biologically.
Fears of certain animals (like spiders and snakes) is a defense mechanism our ancestors developed in a time where we lived among wild animals, who were more dangerous to us then. Fear of heights is a natural fear of falling.
There are some bizarre ones though I guess. Not sure why I'm scared of tall buildings (but not heights generally)
Fears of certain animals (like spiders and snakes) is a defense mechanism our ancestors developed in a time where we lived among wild animals, who were more dangerous to us then. Fear of heights is a natural fear of falling.
There are some bizarre ones though I guess. Not sure why I'm scared of tall buildings (but not heights generally)
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"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