Re: Possible Basis of Fear and Anger

shipmodeler1 wrote:
If it's all centered around breast feeding, then reptiles should be
incapable of these emotions. But as I understand it fear and anger are
governed by the ancient, reptilian part of the brain. How do you
account for this?

Maybe fear and anger are tied in, not to breast feeding, but to the fact
that there are things in the world that want to kill you, eat you, or
subjugate you. Someone who is truly lacking in fear and incapable of
anger will wind up as a snack, a victim, or a slave. In none of those
cases is one likely to reproduce, be one a human or a gila monster.

People always want to make the silly assumption that we are born noble
and society messes us up. It's absurd.


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