what is your phobia?

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  • mrs.apple
    8 years ago | pl

    Me too! Bugs are disgusting, gross, vile, nasty creatures and don't deserve to live. entomophobia aka insectophobia

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    • disthing
      8 years ago | pl

      You can't blame the subject of your phobia for your fear.

      Those bugs don't deserve to die just because you have an irrational fear of them :)

      If we didn't have bugs, our whole ecosystem would collapse and I doubt we'd last that long.

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      • charli.m
        8 years ago | pl

        Yeah, but having an irrational reaction to an irrational fear makes sense.

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        • disthing
          8 years ago | pl

          I guess.

          I'd say going mental and stomping a bug into oblivion is a rational reaction to an irrational fear.

          But trying to justify an irrational fear by saying 'bugs are nasty creatures that don't deserve to live' seems to me like denial.

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          • CountessDouche
            8 years ago | pl

            Fear of insects is actually quite interesting. The biological world would come to a hault without insects. For one, pollination would cease to exist.

            I read a study about why humans are so inclined to fear insects; we are often attracted to animals that we can anthropomorphize...and we are incapable of attributing human characteristics to something so dissimilar...do you ever wonder why pop cult representations of aliens so closely resemble insects? Humans are biologically programmed to fear the non-mammalian characteristics, but for good reason, as there are many venomous/poisonous insects.

            I'm ranting, but I find it interesting. You should read "sex on six legs"...fucking fantastic book.

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          • charli.m
            8 years ago | pl

            Hmm fair point. I was going with it's irrational behaviour that makes sense in light of the irrational fear held.

            Am I just talking in circles? I'm too old and tired :(

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            • disthing
              8 years ago | pl

              :(

              As I've learnt from the pensioners in my life, when you feel too old and tired, the appropriate course of action is to take a nap.

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      • mrs.apple
        8 years ago | pl

        Yeah, but I hate them

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