Is fear bad?

Fear can be good. Fear can stop the spread of disease. Fear can stop you from making mistakes. Fear can help liberate.

Hand washing is the easiest way to prevent the spread of disease. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to get sick because the person who made my lunch went to the bathroom and didn’t wash their hands. Expand this to the spread of the common cold. Why is it common? Because people don’t wash their hands, don’t cover their mouths when they cough and they go out in public, touching shopping carts, tables and door knobs.

Fear of jumping off the cliff in Mexico on spring break could save you from breaking your neck. Fear of smoking can greatly decrease the chances you will get lung cancer. Fear of failure can inspire you to study harder.

Fear of getting pregnant causes the use of the pill, condoms, which can also prevent disease, and other contraceptives. This fear can prevent unwanted pregnancy. Which whether seen as good or bad, is life changing. Giving the woman a right to control her reproductive organs liberate women from the ideologies of cultural thinking. Not every woman wants to be a mother, and not every woman should be a mother.

Sure some will say that the above “fears” are minor and don’t carry weight in the world that we live in now.

Okay so in the grand scheme of things, the common cold is not the end of the world. But what about influenza, meningococcal meningitis, or HIV/AIDS? If you can’t trust someone with $100. Would you trust them with $10,000? People should make the right decisions whether it is small or large, trivial or vital.

Chances are you won’t break your neck cliff diving, but is being paralyzed and never able to walk again worth it? Not to mention the fact that this country is completely inaccessible to those with disabilities.. Stranger things have happened to people who are cautious.
.
Fear causes action, and if there is no fear, no action will be taken.


“Scarlett Wishes”