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That's true, but only if the people around you aren't reinforcing that it's terrifying and disabling. Deliberately, mindful exposure to spiders will cure a spider phobia, for example. Watching people around you scream and panic at the sight of spiders will create one.

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Yes, I agree. A kind of learned panic, learned offense, learned “shock” at a “scandalous” opinion. Some are deliberately trying to instill these things

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