If one is in a difficult situation that persists and can’t be exited from immediately except through death, fear becomes somewhat superfluous. One need cope with working the reality of staying alive. I had a much worse situation in crossing Taku Inlet to Stephen’s Passage in 2018. When Vikings crossed to Greenland they had 60% loss of boats in the first massive immigration voyage. One copes and if the challenge is too much, one dies… That happens eventually anyway.
Consider the circumstance of soldiers in the Ukraine war line of combat contact. They can’t exit. Fear won’t help and will reduce their prospects for staying alive. So they may as well perform the best they can and not think so much about fear. If they die, they died.
Most are killed from sky drones, land drones and tensored in explosives now.
Just 10% die from direct fire weapons like rifles. Don’t forget the cliche; “Soldiers don’t kill soldiers, politicians kill soldiers”.
It is an interest topic. At times one must suspend fear in order to function. Those always without fear would be like those that feel no pain. Natural selection probably deletes such people from existence.
In order to function without capability of fear, one would need to be a great logician analyzing existential phenomena to deduct and induct points of risk and danger. That would be especially challenging meeting the unknown. It would also tend to overland conscious reasoning.
Fear though is a subconscious logician warning of risk an
d danger. It keeps people alive. With experience one can turn fear off after its purpose of recognizing danger is fulfilled.
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