If I feel no fear does that mean that I don't care about negative consequences? Does it mean that I don't feel the emotion of fear? Does it mean that I don't get effected by an adrenaline rush? Does it mean I don't have the instinctual reactions in response to dangerous situations (putting your arms out when you fall)?
Is the fear that is lacking fear operating on an intellectual (this could be dangerous so I suppose I won't do it), emotional, or instinctual level? And then you could probably break down each level in to different types of responses or different aspects of the same response. I think a lot of the disagreement here is from the fact that people are talking about different things when they talk about fear and its absence. Knowledge of consequences combined with desire to avoid the bad ones, arousal in response to danger, the emotional response to that arousal, and the instincts we have to some dangerous situations are all different things.
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If I feel no fear does that mean that I don't care about negative consequences? Does it mean that I don't feel the emotion of fear? Does it mean that I don't get effected by an adrenaline rush? Does it mean I don't have the instinctual reactions in response to dangerous situations (putting your arms out when you fall)?
Is the fear that is lacking fear operating on an intellectual (this could be dangerous so I suppose I won't do it), emotional, or instinctual level? And then you could probably break down each level in to different types of responses or different aspects of the same response. I think a lot of the disagreement here is from the fact that people are talking about different things when they talk about fear and its absence. Knowledge of consequences combined with desire to avoid the bad ones, arousal in response to danger, the emotional response to that arousal, and the instincts we have to some dangerous situations are all different things.