Which is scarier, ridicule or death?

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Edit: For context some people would rather inject poison in their veins than be called crazy. Being called crazy is more fearful than doing something crazy. So it makes me wonder if people are more scared of being socially excluded than they are of dying.

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[–]monkeymagic 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

vax nazis genuinely believe that vaccines are 100 percent beneficial and in no way harmful. no amount of hard data to the contrary changes that belief in any way. they do not believe they are doing anything crazy.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Depends on how much you ridiculed yourself beforehand, i'd guess.

This question needs more context.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Context added.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks. With the added context, I believe it to completely be dependent on the person in question itself.

There are persons, who draw their self-image and hence -value mostly from their relations to other persons. For those people, I imagine this "exclusion" to be quite painful. From my experience, these are generally more dependent persons, more "humane" persons. Those you feel comfortable, to relate to, in a kind of "easy" way. You know those members of groups whose "value" is extremely hard to pinpoint exactly, but you nonetheless instantly realize the group falling apart without them.

Of course, there also are human beings "mis"using these talents. But this isn't the point here.

The "other" kind of human beings can be quite overwhelmed from the presence of other humans alone. Presence already is manipulation. This ain't paranoia.

These are those "loners", "nuts", "idiots", "psychopaths" or whatever pathetic insufficient word you want to use to describe them.

Some of them "just" don't get this relational level of communication as most other human beings do. They ain't "touched" that easily, so to say.

But both of these kinds of human beings, I described, have the same ability in realizing one simple fact:

"Crazy" as a category itself is totally pointless. This word is used to achieve groupthink and incite intolerant behavior.

Every person is crazy the same. Just in its own way.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ridicule would have consequences to experience, there could be suffering of some form. Death would be a lack of further experience, therefore an end to suffering. I'd likely opt for death, depending on how tolerable the ridicule were and to what scale.

Threat of ridicule or death though, that's entirely different. People are proud enough and confident enough to defend against looming ridicule, whereas they are more likely to experience greater fear of the threat of death.