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| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
So, I just had this thought, like, what if I had an aneurysm just here and now, and died?
Oh wait, I just thought about that for like 10 seconds and now I'm not scared.
People are scared of flying though? WOW. That's so fucking silly and stupid, how can those people not be having fun like ME? Plus, I mean, we all die anyways so no need to worry right??
It doesn't really matter though, whatever. |
Statistically, flying is one of the safest things you can do.
An aneurysm has statistical basis over a wide population, but the individual chance of it happening to you is an unknown, it is far more sane to be fearful of a random and unpredictable medical condition like that then a widely observable statistical trend like flying on an airliner.
On the other hand, you basically have no control over an aneurysm either, so its not worth being really scared about it. I know, I delt with a really strong fear of them when I was in 3rd grade after a soccer teammate of mine died of one. Every single headache I got scared the crap out of me for like 3 months after that. But I soon realized that if it happens to me there is pretty much nothing I can do about it, so if it happens, well it happens, no point worrying about it.
Same goes for nuclear war. Scared the CRAP out of me in 2nd grade. Instead of being scared I decided to learn every possible thing I could about it and set out to do that in depth. I educated myself and within a year or so my fear of nuclear war was basically non-existent. There is nothing you can do to prevent a nuclear war as an average citizen, so there is no point in being scared of it. If it happens, its going to happen, hope it doesn't, but I am not up at night anymore worrying about the end of the world, because I know first off that it'd be incredibly rare circumstances that lead to it, and if it does lead to it, well thats it. Flash, cinge, blown away (at least you hope, better to die than survive a full on nuclear exchange).
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