Fear Is More Powerful Than Reason

making people aware of what influence fear can have on reason is an essential step

People often fear what they don 't understand. Evolutionary psychology can be traced back millions of years, when fear helped keep man from peril. Avoiding the unknown created a sense of security. Consequently, since the beginning of mankind, our instincts have developed to be perilous of the familiar. Fear of the unknown causes people to become narrow-minded and ignorant of the unfamiliar, and how people behave when they believe something will happen even though there is no basis for their assumptions. This ideology directly correlates to Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the story, the townspeople are challenged by fear, which causes them to go against each other. The fear of change within the town associates with racism and causes the white majority to victimize a discerned black minority. The whites have developed such a strong stereotype amongst the blacks that they have become unmindful of what’s right. Boo Radley is one of the best examples of someone who is unfairly targeted because of Maycomb’s fear of the unknown. His problems with the law result in isolation within the Radley house, and because he refuses to leave his house, the townspeople are terrified and make accusations. During Tom Robinson’s trial, Atticus used logic, reason and intelligence, to prove Tom’s

While fear itself is a healthy emotion, irrational fears cause people to take irrational actions. In The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner, the aspects of human's response to fear are explained in four different groups. When people experience fear, naturally they come together with the people who share similar beliefs (Gardner 15). Gardner describes this gravitation as “group polarization” and with this comes confirmation bias. When the groups of people come together with the bias they hold to be true if confirmed and strengthened by those who share them (Gardner 15). The actions of these groups are based on the two systems of thinking. System one thinking is fast, involving feelings and emotions. Whereas system two thinking is based on reason and logic within one's actions (Gardner 15). However, the actions caused by fear are sometimes out of the thought of fear rather than the reality of it. The reality is that “ the only thing we have to fear … if fear itself-

Fear, the only emotion in life that is fun and not fun at the same time to experience. This is what makes it so interesting to mankind. To no surprise, anything that can induce this emotion is able to sell, and sell quickly at that. Although you don’t need to pay to experience this feeling, being that life is scary all on its own, many people do. Roller coasters, scary stories, and horror based video games are all popular examples of things people pay to go through. A trend of fear in life and literature have come as a result of this common interest, combined with the natural events of everyday life.

Everyone experiences fear in one point of their lifetime. Fear is a common emotion that affect people mentally and physically. Such as, causing a person to be so scared that they can't even move or can cause a person’s fear to overcome them enough to be challenged mentally and produce erratic and illogical thinking, therefore overcoming their own morals and reasoning. Fear fueled imagination overcomes reason by altering someone's morals, by changing their emotional point of view, and by motivating people to do irrational actions.

Since the beginning of time, our views on fear have drastically changed. It was once thought that fear was a disease, but what is fear. Is it that horrible feeling we get when our stomach feels like its going to explode, or is something else. We’ll forever feel that feeling of fear. From the day we are born to the day we die. Fear is that quintessential human emotion. Regardless of living life with joy, happiness, and pleasure, humans can't escape the feeling of fear and what comes with fear; pain. Fear is a feeling your body produces to tell you about dangerous, threatening, or scary situation. It's what gives you the ability to sense danger and react. We’re shaped by fear, despite spending our entire lives trying to avoid fear. Fear is powerful, there is not escaping fear, but there is striving from fear.

Fear is an imperceptible emotion that is capable of overwhelming a person’s psyche and obscuring previous and future thoughts and actions. Fear is a complex and intricate array of emotion that attaches many other feelings to it, creating an umbrella of anguish and sheltered torture that affects the mind and body negatively. Bigger Thomas in Native Son by Richard Wright, Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and Kurtz in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad evince personalities based upon their inner demons. These characters ineffectively deal with their intense and internal fear that ultimately leads to their demise, demonstrating that psychological tortures lead to physical downfalls.

In this essay I’m talking about a man who believes that fear should not be an option and have faith in his spirits. His name is okonkwo he is the main character in the book I’m writing about. The fear he had over his own kids make it hard to love him. In the beginning of the story he was harsh to everyone.

Fear. An awful emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat. Fear is a tool for political control and is what influences many issues in the world. It is something that was used many times in history, September 11th, 2001, other countries, current issues, and the 2016 election, to motivate people’s actions.

For decades intelligence quotient (IQ) has been held with utmost importance. Many use it to measure success later on in life, while others use it to measure how “smart” they are. According to Hurley, an IQ test or a portion that measures fluid intelligence can test and predict various things in the future, but that’s not true; it can’t predict how one will react in a certain situations, or what an individual will feel at a certain time. In fact, a woman named Tina Crhristopherson had the IQ of 189 (140 genius), but that didn’t make her the brightest of the bunch ("Commentary: When fear gets in the way of intelligent behavior" 1). Tina spent her life living in fear of an illness her mother had, so she would drink four gallons

Over the vast history of the human race, fear has protected us from possible threats. Whether it be rational or irrational, fear is always present and active in our minds. Over hundreds of years, many studies and tests have been performed to narrow down on the essence or meaning of fear, and today, we can be relatively certain of most aspects.

The main fallacy that I should be talking is “Appeal to Fear” as every factions excerpt the moderate use against each other. The Linceans fear that is prey on Church’s ability to interpret the Bible as it an important source of power for the Church. The Church attacks the Linceans as Galileo could not give solid proof or explanation beside his observations to his claim that the Sun is the center of universe and not earth. Appeal to Fear is a emotion fallacy that plays on the fear of the opponent and audience. it used rhetoric, threat, and lies rather than relies on solid evidence to reach a certain conclusion.

Why do many people enjoy the fear? Many psychologists agree that people do not enjoy the fear itself, but the feelings that come with it. “Fear is a negative emotion that comes about when people are under siege or threat, and that is not pleasant,’ said Glenn Sparks, a professor of communication who studies the media's effects on people at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IND. ’After researching this as long as I have, I have not

In Once Upon a Time, by Nadine Gordimer, the author tells a dark story in a fairy tale format. This piece reveals a very dark truth, revealed through the theme, which is being controlled by fear. It is eloquently portrayed through her simple, yet descriptive wording. Allowing irrational fear to take over one’s life leads to self-destruction, which is the dark truth Gordimer wants the reader to understand.

If i told you that there was something in your life which you chose to ignore, or simply didn’t know about, or perhaps something in your life scared you so much you didn’t want anything to do with it, you would probably associate that notion with a phobia or a class you’ve yet to take. But the concepts I talk about run much deeper than something as simple as a fear of the dark. Ignorance and fear are but two of the many reasons that prejudice still lives on today.