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Question: Is fear taught or something your born with
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Some fear is instinctual!.!.!.helping to insure survival of the species!. Some fear is societal, and much of the rest of our fears are learned!. I'm sure you can think of a number of fears instilled in you by your parents or someone else who was interested in your well-being!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You are born with the ability to recognize the difference between pleasure and pain!. Fear, in actuality, is merely a refinement and expansion upon the pain reflex, for what is it that makes you afraid!?

Think of pain as the modeling clay and fear as the ugly bowl that will come of it later!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

1!. technically, fear is a natural thing, it's instinct!. that's a good thing too because without fear, we wouldn't be as good at keeping ourselves out of harmful situations!. every animal has it!. mice, dogs, fish, humans, kangaroos, probably even insects and spiders! anything that needs survival skills must have a fear instinct

2!. you could say that a lot of times society teaches us WHAT to be afraid of!. especially religion!. without it, no one would be afraid of burning in hell!! most leaders use fear and guilt to make them more powerfulWww@QuestionHome@Com

Fear is a learned behavior!. As the animal at the top of the food chain and a 'predator', we have no reasons to fear anything unless we learn this behavior, usually early in life!.
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Hmm, Good question!.
My anwser is both!
Every human is born with the element to have fear!. But it only becomes fear when you are exposed to something which triggers it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

fear is not a thing that you born with!.why!?just pay attention to children!.they don't even know what is the meaning of fear!.!.!.!!!!!
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Its an instinct and we are born with!. Its a self defense!. The only thing we learn is how to accept!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I've got to say both!. You could be taught to have a fear my your family and you can't really control a fear of heights or whatever!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Some of both!.
Some fears we're born with for our own protection!.
Others we learn from trial and error or from other people instilling them into us in one form or another!.

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