What are you afraid of that you shouldn't be?

Originally Posted by Minion

Sure is! How's being a tedious queer working out for you?

As for the topic question...

How can you be afraid of something that you shouldn't be afraid of? There has to be a reason you're afraid of it. If you think about it in this way, anything that you are afraid of has reasoning behind it.
Take for example being afraid of bugs. If your fear of insects is derived from your disgust of their looks and the "creepy-crawly feeling" you get from them, why shouldn't that disgust trickle down into fear? It's just natural, after all, to fear what you don't understand and to not want to understand what you fear. I suppose it's human nature, really.

On the flip side, if you look at a fear and write it off as "being scared of something you don't understand," couldn't you say that almost everything you fear is something that you shouldn't? I mean to say, with the exception of fearing pain, death (and that's debatable depending on your beliefs and all that), and peril, what is there to fear?

How ya doing, buddy?