Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 3:17 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 3:50 am
If all fears are irrational, then humans should not be bothered with being exposed to highly dangerous viruses and things that can cause death.
You are talking rubbish. You need knowledge of danger to avoid it. Fear is an unbalanced drive, unmeasured and can cause irrational responses.
Fear is an emotional response, not a rational one.
There is no rational fear. Its just a contradiction.
YOU are talking rubbish.
What is irrational-fear is on hindsight, i.e. when one respond to the trigger of fear by responding in a way that is not irrational.
Yes, fear is an emotion, it purpose is to trigger for responses to facilitate survival.
The fear emotion can be triggered by threats that are potentially fatal in various degrees and form.
These threats are instinctual, learned or perceived.
The human being is triggered and motivated to respond accordingly.
What is rational is the function of the higher reasoning faculty.
What is irrational is when one respond to the trigger of fear by responding in a way that is not irrational.
For example phobias are irrational responses to the trigger of fear. To fear spiders merely from the sight of them, even up to 50-20 feet, is irrational, since whatever threat of death is in this case is negligible.
Thus whether a fear response is rational or irrational is always an after thought and a deliberation.
A fear response to the ideology of Islam is not irrational because it is very rational to fear the potential fatal threats from the ideology of Islam as it is so evident.
Thus the justified critique of the ideology of Islam upon justified-fears* is not irrational.
* I have argued on this elsewhere that is it the ideology of Islam itself that exhorts Muslims to war against and kill non-Muslims.
However, Muslimophobia, the fear of Muslims or a Muslim which is upon perceived-unjustified-fear is irrational.