What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?

Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it’s all weird.

Edit
Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I’m talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports

  • MHanak@lemmy.world
    25·
    5 months ago

    My guess would be that after we get scared the brain goes “good job, you survived, here’s some endorphins”. That way we enjoy getting scared because happiness follows

    Source: none.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
      11·
      5 months ago

      I imagine that’d be just as fucked up to aliens:

      Their brain injects feelgood drugs to reward them for being scared??? and they got addicted?!?!