No fear? ...at all, ever?

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

What would you do if you weren't afraid of anything? Fear isn't a fathomable possibility and you're never in that state of mind in any given situation... Would your life be different or the same?

 

[Dee]

Haha, well, I'd fly in a plane again and travel the world. I really, really wish I wasn't afraid of flying, and getting over your fear of flying is really a matter of just getting back on a plane. There's really no in between.

 

[Evil Eye]

Maybe I'd get myself run over by a car or something.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Don't mistake a lack of fear for invincibility.

 

[Evil Eye]

Don't mistake a lack of fear for invincibility.

Oh, I'm not. I just suspect that without being able to comprehend fear at all, I might be less inclined to look both ways before crossing a street. Which would be rather unfortunate.

 

[Bluezone777]

You would likely just end up killing yourself either by the hands of another or by yourself. I wouldn't know what you would do to end up with that happening but that would be the result. Fear does have a place as it's not having it that's the problem but it being too much so it ends up paralyzing you.

 

[seasidemike]

My life would be the same I think, but I might try more things a bit easier like parachuting or bungee jumping and stuff like that.

 

[+paradox]

Don't mistake a lack of fear for invincibility.

Oh, I'm not. I just suspect that without being able to comprehend fear at all, I might be less inclined to look both ways before crossing a street. Which would be rather unfortunate.

You would likely just end up killing yourself either by the hands of another or by yourself. I wouldn't know what you would do to end up with that happening but that would be the result. Fear does have a place as it's not having it that's the problem but it being too much so it ends up paralyzing you.

one shall be fearless and intelligent enough to not get yourself killed too, yes?...

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Common sense would kick in at some point, I'd assume.

 

[wattsitsbritish]

Become a crime fighting superhero. :fighting:

 

[Bluezone777]

Part of good sense is having a healthy fear of things that will harm or kill you. Seeing as in this topic all fear has bee removed means you will not demonstrate good sense as you have no fear in you. For example, you look both ways before crossing a street due to the fear of being hit by a car. If you didn't fear getting hit by a car then you wouldn't do that and would just cross with no concern for anything else but getting to the other side.

It is just as harmful to be without fear as it is to be with too much fear.

 

[+paradox]

idk, i seem to be for the most part fearless...

but i'm still smart enough to know the dangers and be fearless at the same time...

just like how people know the dangers of doing a lot of things such as riding a motorcycle or a car, they might have that fear or not, but still be smart about thing due to the dangers...

being smart enough to think of and to remember the dangers doesn't mean you fear it...

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Part of good sense is having a healthy fear of things that will harm or kill you. Seeing as in this topic all fear has bee removed means you will not demonstrate good sense as you have no fear in you. For example, you look both ways before crossing a street due to the fear of being hit by a car. If you didn't fear getting hit by a car then you wouldn't do that and would just cross with no concern for anything else but getting to the other side.

It is just as harmful to be without fear as it is to be with too much fear.

You could substitute fear for knowledge, you can know getting hit by a car will kill you without being afraid of it. ..and use your common sense to avoid situations like that.

 

[DrLeftover]

If you truly suffered from Urbach–Wiethe disease (a mental condition that prevents you from all sense of fear)....

you probably wouldn't live long without 24 hour care.

However, some people don’t experience this sensation of fear. Individuals who have undergone damage to the amygdala, either through a stroke or head injury, or from the rare genetic condition Urbach-Wiethe disease, report an inability to feel this emotion. One famous example of this absence is in the patient SM, who reported no feelings of fear when faced with snakes, spiders, horror films or haunted houses. Even after being threatened with a real life knife attack SM had no experience of fear sensations. However, there was one thing that was able to instill in her these feelings of anxiety and terror – asphyxiation.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have been studying SM over the last decade to try to find something, anything, that would scare her. After exhausting all the typical psychological stressors to no avail, they decided to try a physical stressor that can elicit the same reactions. Published last month in Nature Neuroscience, the researchers had SM and two other people with similar amygdala lesions inhale carbon dioxide for several seconds, cutting off their oxygen flow and essentially suffocating them. This experience typically causes panic attacks and fear responses in people, including extreme distress, pounding heart and an immediate desire to escape the situation. All three participants – none of whom had previously experienced fear – had these exact same panicky reactions to the CO2. In fact, when compared with normal healthy individuals, the amygdala patients had significantly greater fear responses, both physically and psychologically, than those with intact amygdalas.

More:
https://brainstudy.wordpress.com/tag/urbach-wiethe-disease/

 

[+paradox]

If you truly suffered from Urbach–Wiethe disease (a mental condition that prevents you from all sense of fear)....

you probably wouldn't live long without 24 hour care.

However, some people don’t experience this sensation of fear. Individuals who have undergone damage to the amygdala, either through a stroke or head injury, or from the rare genetic condition Urbach-Wiethe disease, report an inability to feel this emotion. One famous example of this absence is in the patient SM, who reported no feelings of fear when faced with snakes, spiders, horror films or haunted houses. Even after being threatened with a real life knife attack SM had no experience of fear sensations. However, there was one thing that was able to instill in her these feelings of anxiety and terror – asphyxiation.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have been studying SM over the last decade to try to find something, anything, that would scare her. After exhausting all the typical psychological stressors to no avail, they decided to try a physical stressor that can elicit the same reactions. Published last month in Nature Neuroscience, the researchers had SM and two other people with similar amygdala lesions inhale carbon dioxide for several seconds, cutting off their oxygen flow and essentially suffocating them. This experience typically causes panic attacks and fear responses in people, including extreme distress, pounding heart and an immediate desire to escape the situation. All three participants – none of whom had previously experienced fear – had these exact same panicky reactions to the CO2. In fact, when compared with normal healthy individuals, the amygdala patients had significantly greater fear responses, both physically and psychologically, than those with intact amygdalas.

More:
https://brainstudy.wordpress.com/tag/urbach-wiethe-disease/

you can still be fearless and not have Urbach–Wiethe disease...

 

[+paradox]

some say:
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fear comes from the heart...

intelligence comes from the brain...
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fearing something and to not fear something doesn't mean you have a cold heart or a bad thing...