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It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response (lemmy.ca)
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What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?

Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it's all weird.

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Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I'm talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports

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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Im gonna edit my post because everyone is too hung up on extreme sports.
Horror movies also fall under the same category of thing. It's not about the risk, it's about triggering fear response. I just picked extreme sports because I couldn't fit the whole premise in the title

[-] God_Is_Love@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Ohhh yeah sorry, I might have misinterpreted the point of your post! Obviously no one dies from watching a horror movie so my comment doesn't apply 🤪

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