First of all it wasn't me who wrote fear tells one what to do or not, it was you. Which is why I put the word "tells" in scare quotes. What you are referring to

First of all it wasn't me who wrote fear tells one what to do or not, it was you. Which is why I put the word "tells" in scare quotes. What you are referring to, in that first paragraph of yours, is the role of fear in moral conditioning. The fear-conditioning instilled by your parents, peers, society via the 'stick' in the 'carrot and stick' based socialization. Unless they are a sociopath one is taught from an early age not to kill, maim or wound (among other principles) one's fellow humans, and where such fear-based socialization fails to work (because -- and this was the key point inferred above -- fear ultimately doesn't work in the modern world), the police-force with their license to kill takes over. > I'm starting to wonder about your mental state, as well. Your beating around the bush, via rephrasing that "you astounding idiot" insult, this time isn't going to change the fact that you'd rather go ad hominem than engage with rational discussion ... speaking of which, it may be apposite to point out that it was you who deemed human intelligence to be insufficient when it comes to such a simple act of not recklessly fooling around with dangerous creatures, to wit: <quote> dawnbreez: The point is that the fear-response tells you to not play with the tiger, you astounding idiot. <endquote> > You seem to be very focused on direct connections between emotion and full-on mental illness--all anger is violence, all fear is crippling phobia, all sadness is unending depression, at least to you. I can only guess at what led to these conclusions. Guess and wonder what you will ... meanwhile the original query, asked 22 hours ago, is yet to be answered: <quote> sridca: Name one instance of sensibility in retaining fear-response in this modern world. <endquote>