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It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response

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What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?

Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it’s all weird.

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Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I’m talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports

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I imagine that’d be just as fucked up to aliens:

Their brain injects feelgood drugs to reward them for being scared??? and they got addicted?!?!

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