eli5 why do we (as a species) develop irrational fears?
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In addition to the excellent answers so far, in general our emotional mechanisms tend to be blunt instruments. The mechanism here is that fear of deadly things is protective, but that leads to you lying awake because you can’t get murderous clowns out of your head. Pennywise isn’t real, but the mechanism doesn’t know that.
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