Re:Save Your Sanity, Downgrade Your Life
by quickthrower2 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:31PM
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Because we are programmed to do everything to make sure we survive and our children survive. Even when the threat level is super low it's hard to lose the instinct. Hence why terrorism scares people who then go and buy a lottery ticket. We're bad at probability!
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>Because we are programmed to do everything to make sure we survive and our children survive.
Makes sense at first, but I don't think we are. I see other cultures (including western ones), and even the US at 70s and earlier, that don't do the same "everything" at all.
I think what we are, in some countries, is conditioned by hysterical media and hysterical society, to over-protect our children to the point of social pathology.