Fear Essay

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Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders. Gephyrophobia is the fear of crossing bridges. Acrophobia is the fear of heights. The only reason these are feared is because the less that is known, the more dangerous it is. Remaining ignorant of a source of fear is the only way fear can exist, so being more knowledgeable would help to conquer those fears. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” This quote is saying that ignorance is the main source of fear. If everything is known, nothing is unknown, so nothing is to be feared. Just like in The Hot Zone, when Tom Geisbert and Peter Jahrling sniffed the flask containing Ebola. Both of them remembered the fateful day that “he might have sniffed just a little bit of it. Anyway, he hadn't sniffed it, he had only whiffed it. He had kind of like waved his hand over it, just to bring the scent to his nose. He hadn't inhaled it.” Ebola is the scary virus, the mystery virus, the one that nobody knows anything about. By admitting to sniffing the flask, the Submarin...

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