To fasten your seatbelt, insert the flap into the buckle

Re:To fasten your seatbelt, insert the flap into the buckle by j_b_f on Friday September 18, 2009 @09:34AM (#830209)

If "lack of control" is what defines your fears, then I'd assume you'd be afraid of almost everything. Our water supply, break-ins, the government, etc. Can you ride a bus or sit in the passenger seat of a car? When you ride a bike, do you realize how easily a car could just take you out?

At some point you have to look at the data and determine what's a reasonable fear and what isn't. If you maintain an unreasonable fear of a reasonably safe activity, don't try to make it appear rational by explaining it's a control issue.

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Re:To fasten your seatbelt, insert the flap into the buckle by jrwoodruff on Friday September 18, 2009 @09:50AM (#830229)

In most of the situations you list, we can still convince ourself we're in control. We can ditch the bike to avoid the car, drink bottled water if we think tap water is unsafe, lock our doors, jump out of the escape hatch on the bus (or grab the wheel if necessary).

On a plane, you have no options, short of skydiving without a parachute. You pretty much hand complete control, and more importantly, any illusion of control, over to the pilot.

The point here is most fear is irrational. Also, the illusion of control is just that.

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