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I think I basically agree with you, there is a sense in which I definitely acknowledge that after I die there is nothing I feel I have to fear... And I do feel that I could express a lack of fear of death in this manner. However #2 is what does lead me to claim a fear of death, I have an...

What sort of a character do you think I have?

Figured I'd make a new topic as to not detract from the Does God Exist? thread. It becomes quite apparent to me that the general thinking is "death is nothing to me, therefore fear of death is irrational" Epicurius said when I exist, death does not, when death exists I do not. Death cannot...

I've seen it... I believe it's in a large part a performance to present his situation in an overly positive light. He doesn't want to wallow in self-pity and that's good, but when faced with the prospect of your own death I think it's okay to have a little self-pity. It's a private thing, not...

But children who are separated from birth tend to share the social disgust for incest yet will occasionally find their close relative quite attractive when they first meet as adults, how does this reconcile with a purely genetic basis? Furthermore in studies done on Israeli kibbutzim children...

But... dying does evoke such strong emotions? I'm fairly sure people become extremely upset upon hearing of their imminent death.

Fine, I'll take the view of the anthropologist. The taboo is the cause of the 'psychological disgust and aversion'. I mean... incest actually does occur fairly commonly amongst other social animals. Reasons why it would be a taboo? You musn't have read the article. What do you say? Is this...

I am an atheist. There is no god. There is no afterlife. One day soon, really in just the blink of an eye, I will be gone. Fairly soon after that all memory of me will be gone. The universe will carry on but even something as large as our solar system eventually will be swallowed in the death of...

Already explained it's not equating. I believe events which are likely to have extremely distressing negative emotional consequences i.e. devastating, sad, painful etc are likely to lead to anxiety and fear.

You can go and declare that all you want but the fact remains that there are problems with such genetic theories as there may be issues with more culture centric theories, which would be why I said his theory doesn't tell the whole picture. I mean... personally I'd tend to want some form of a...

I already responded to you. http://community.boredofstudies.org/showpost.php?p=3604871&postcount=9364 Basically a) I fear death in some situations at least from my perspective for the same reasons I desire food in some situations i.e. an underlying biological urge (desire for food, desire for...

If you feel extreme sadness from x event then it makes sense to me to fear it happening, to want to try to avoid it if possible and feel an emotional desire for it not to happen. It's not equating, I just feel they usually go hand in hand.

You fear being stabbed in the arm equally to being given a lethal injection? I honestly can't believe it *shrug*

Question: Would you fear situations which are more likely to kill than situations which are likely to hurt you? I.e. Would you be more afraid upon hearing you have received a lethal injection which will shut you down into a coma and make you die, or upon being faced with someone who is (in your...

Fearing the 'uncertainty' of death? Seems like a fear of death. It's possible that you're just afraid of the pain, but there are ways to die that people fear (though I'll conceed less) that have little pain - However I suppose perhaps you could say you fear the uncertain prospect that there...

I believe a fear of circumstances which lead to death is a fear of death, it also seems to make sense biologically because at the very least it's much simpler for something to simply fear death and then whatever situation that comes up be able to quickly do a calculation about what would...

You wouldn't feel afraid if your mum was going in for risky surgery? Wow... I would. I equate them as basically the same, I mean we can 'fear death' in situations where we might die , we can't fear death while it's happening. Perhaps you mean that you don't think you'll mind being dead, which...

Yes I'm quite aware that our evolution is always merely geared towards passing on genes, however in doing so we have been given a desire for self-preservation. It's like if I said we've been given a desire to be intellectually curious, obviously this is just a result of evolution's workings to...

You've used fairly odd language here... I mean I'm proposing it as the cause for the social taboo then you're saying if you removed it as a taboo it still wouldn't happen... because it would still be a taboo. edit: Nevermind that I was actually saying inasero's idea isn't the complete picture...

To me at least I know evolutionary humans are imbued with self-preservation, this comes about in the form of pain which is uncomfortable and causes us to desire to stop the pain and fear which gives us the fight or flight response (making us better able to run away etc etc).... It is all about a...