Is fear a choice? What do you fear and why?

[Michael-5]

Farsala said:

Michael-5 said:

Farsala said:
Fear is a choice imo. You could become a mindless drone and have no fear. If you were born without any senses at all it would impossible to feel fear imo.

To be born with or without senses, doesn't sound like a choice to me. In fact it sounds like the opposite.

Say you are born in a room without senses. You still got the senses but there would be no way of finding out. Thus no way of finding a fear.

That's a different arguement. That's being born with a pre-wired fear of something, just never encountering that something.

That's the same as me being afraid of heights, but living my life somewhere flat. I'm still afraid of heights, if I go on a plane, near a cliff, or in a tall tower, I will still be afraid. Just until I do, I won't know that.

In this case, my only choice would be to live without the stimulus which causes me to be fearful. However I do not have the choice not to be afraid of heights when placed in that position.