Fear can change the way we see things, fear can make people act out and do things they probably wouldn’t. History has shown that people will often go to war or prepare for it out of fear, our current peace method is ‘mutual assured destruction’ which means that if we get attacked, there will be a counter attack of similar destruction and the fact that many powerful countries have nukes means that if one country nukes another, world war could eventually follow. Fear is what makes world peace impossible, every country fears other countries that have power, so they build weapons to deffend, making other countries worried about their safety, so they build weapons and the cycle continues.
Most people are afraid of something
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it couldbe spiders, bees, the dark or whatever. the reason people have these fears is because it is human instinct to be afraid of things that may be harmful to us. The only way humans could survive in the wild, before we had better weapons that put us on top, was to either run or fight. This fight or flight response is what kept us alive, without it I don’t know how people would respond to their fears. Some people are different, some instinctively run, some stand up and fight, it all depends on who they are, not who they want or act like, but who they are truly. I do not know how I react to fears, its been awhile since I’ve had to face one, but I know that I used to not react well.
In the book Persepolis, (which we are reading in class) there is a lot of fear going around, there is the fear of your family being taken by the government for little to no reason, there is the fear of being bombed by enemy countries, there is the fear of being taken away yourself. Marji (the main character, who is a child) doesn’t seem to fear anything, which makes me skeptical because most people fear something, the only time Marji shows fear is when they may get bombed and that is a rational fear. There isn’t many ties with the book and this topic, there are a few like: Fear of westernization, fear of invasion, fear of change and so on, but those are generic and are uninteresting to read about, so I will choose not to write about it.
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