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·
    7 个月前

    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·
      7 个月前

      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?!?!