Imaginarynumber1, on 16 December 2012 - 09:27 PM, said:
Even ancient people were afraid of bats and snakes. Do you know why? Same reason that they/we are afraid of spiders. It's an evolutionary adaptation.
I seriously doubt it. Few people show much of any sort of instinct because humans
rely primarily on learning and experience to adapt to the world. Babies show no fear
of such creatures until they are trained.
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Those things can kill us, easily.
Bats do far more good than harm. People are rarely affected by them directly except
through decreased insect populations. Very few people die of any sort of "serpent"
attack each year. Our fear is far out of proportion to the danger.
Men fear the pyramid, time fears man.