[ SECRET POST #2591 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2591 ⌋

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Comments

Re: The gift of fear

[dreemyweird]

Didn't read the book, but I think the world is really an unsafe place for many people regardless of their race, nationality, or gender. In general, I think that the world is very unsafe. I'm a bit paranoid myself. Sometimes I think that many people either don't recognize or disregard the danger.

(Not talking about crimes as such, though - there are plenty of other shitty things that can happen to a person.)

Re: The gift of fear

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, the world is an unsafe place. The trick is to be aware of this fact, take what steps you reasonably can to mitigate the most avoidable risks, and not obsess over the stuff you really can't do much about (or whose risk to you is so small that the cost of guaranteeing they don't happen is wildly disproportionate to the danger.)

Re: The gift of fear

[dreemyweird]

Yeah, IA. I manage to do almost everything of the above, apart from the "not obsess over the stuff you can't do much about" part. Some of this stuff is so horrifying I cannot stop thinking about it. And the risk isn't negligible, either.

Also, I often feel a surge of fear when I do something wrong or neglect to do something. Like, I know I'm a human being and I'm going to be lazy and make mistakes, but I feel like I cannot actually afford it.

IMO, these are often the main problems when it comes to dealing with the world as a dangerous place. "The unfixable stuff is too awful to bear" and "the number of mistakes I make is too great".

Re: The gift of fear

[(Anonymous)]

Um, that's exactly the point of The Gift of Fear--that you can mitigate the most avoidable risks by listening to your intuitive sense of danger. It's not a book urging people to obsess over improbable risks--in fact, the author explicitly advises people not to do this, and he had some choice things to say about how obsessive worry and Mean World Syndrome do not make you safer. It's pretty rich that you're calling it a terrible book when it's screamingly obvious that you haven't read it.

Re: The gift of fear

[dreemyweird]

I'm pretty sure this is not the OP.

Re: The gift of fear

[(Anonymous)]

Uff-da--rereading the comment, I'm sure you're right. OTOH, I'm standing by my conviction that OP is spouting off without ever having read the book.