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Compare with news stories from last decade, about people in Pakistan developing a deep fear of clear skies over several years of US drone strikes in the area. T

Compare with news stories from last decade, about people in Pakistan developing a deep fear of clear skies over several years of US drone strikes in the area. They became trained to associate good weather with not beauty, but impending death.

latexr 1y ago
Fear and a sense of beauty aren’t mutually exclusive. It is perfectly congruent to fear a snake, or bear, or tiger in your presence, yet you can still find them beautiful.
- cozzyd 1y ago
  An asteroid barreling towards Earth is undoubtedly beautiful, as is a mushroom cloud.