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I think you missed the point. It's not that the fear is itself intrinsically wrong, it's that the fear is leading to an irrational belief: that I will likely die if I do this wire-guided fall. That's just not a belief that comports with reality.
I, uh, rather think that you missed the point. "Rationality", when expressed in this kind of technicolor paint brush way, is a poorly-defined, fundamentally unscientific concept. Belief in it is itself irrational. Basically: this is just self-help hippie nonsense to me. My irony detector is off the charts, and I was expecting to be more impressed.
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> I don't know whether this counts as highly rational, highly contrarian, or just annoying. I am confidant that any attempt to rule out the third possibility will fail.
> > I don't know whether this counts as highly rational, highly contrarian, or just annoying. > I am confidant that any attempt to rule out the third possibility will fail. To be sure, as the highly rational being that I am :-), I recognise that it is annoying; my question is whether it is just annoying, i.e., without any corresponding benefit.
* that it is just annoying
Of course, Messrs. Carrey and Daniels have a proof by demonstration that the just annoying ( http://www.wavlist.com/movies/032/dumb-annoy.wav ) can get two million views on YouTube; which may be a corresponding benefit.