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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Or it could simply be that human culture has ingrained this apprehension from birth, and we mimic what we see adults doing from the state of our subconscious absorption of these behaviors that were modeled to us by example. Instinct is a myth, animals have culture and teach their young. The only instinct is fight or flight, everything else is a matter of individual intelligence and an agency and capacity to learn.
Evolution is a theory, its better to try to base ontological interpretations from the realm of observed fact, and nurture is easily observable phenom, where as nature is speculative because it is naturally beyond the scope and magnitude of our limited perspective
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Its a cross-cultural phenomena, you see similar reactions from people in different parts of the world whether theyve encountered those species or not because fear of these things is innate in our brains.
Evolution is not a theory, it is a fact. If youre not past this point then you have little of value to add to any conversation about human psychology.