What do we, as humans, fear the most?

Question

I have heard many quotes stating what we, as a society, or as humans, fear the most. One is that we fear our own strength. A second is that we are so afraid of what is different from us that we drive it away, disguising our fear as hatred, which is why there is a such thing as racism, sexism, homophobes and such. I have also heard that we fear change so much that there is a whole political party dedicated to it. Advice has been given that the only thing that one should fear is death, but I don't even fear that. What is it that the human race fears above all things?

Answer 1

All of it stems to a unifying fear of the unknown.  You can make the case that all of it ties into the unknown.

Answer 2

death, i think.

Answer 3

loneliness and despair

Answer 4

the human race fears having another life form that is stronger the us out there

Answer 5

Change.

Answer 6

i would say being broken i think humans can handle physical pain more than what aches the heart and soul and when one feels like they arent worth nothing so there is nothing to fear and that is fear itself

Answer 7

The human race's greatest fear? - Not having influence.

I think this goes for both "good" and "evil" people. At the end I think we have a need to have a purpose for being alive and to be remembered.

Answer 8

not ghosts... not anymore.

Answer 9

Three of the most popular fears are lonliness,spiders, and death.

Answer 10

Rejection and failure are my two fears.

Death? I do not fear that.  Me and the man upstairs we are square on that point.

Answer 11

Life.

Answer 12

i'm scared of being unloved and not liking to admit it... i'm sometimes scared that God doesn't excist. only sometimes though... lol.

lots of people are probably scared of those.

Answer 13

Boredom (nothingness)

Answer 14

Not being accepted by others? Failing in life? Being alone forever?

Answer 15

DEATH AT ANY TIME!!!!

Answer 16

We fear what we don't know or understand, because we long for control over our world, and it is unsettling when we can't make sense of a certain thing - death, religion, love, etc.

Answer 17

DEATH

Answer 18

Wasn't it President Franklin D. Roosevelt who said something like "The only thing to fear is fear itself"?   And wasn't it God Himself, in His Book, say, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"?(Psalms 110: 10)  God Bless you.

Answer 19

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself",

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 20

Given our powerful urges, it appears it is the termination of the family or tribe and thru them the ending of our specie. 70,000 years ago it almost happened. We dropped to fewer than 10,000 people from about 3 million! I don't believe we have ever overcome that trauma. When all the chips are down, we will do anything to preserve our tribe. We did it before and I think we'll do it again if the need arises.

Answer 21

i personally believe that people fear going outside of their comfort zone, many people just stick to what they are brought up around and never stray away from those ideas, beliefs, areas, and people.

Answer 22

Monsters!

Answer 23

Doesn't everyone fear failure or rejection?

Answer 24

I fear death and not the fact of dying but the part of leaving everything behind. Though a time comes where we all have to!! Lets just hope re-incarnation is real :D

Answer 25

We fear the unknown the most. Something we are unfamiliar with makes uneasy because anything could happen. Many of the things you said fall under this category.

Answer 26

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Answer 27

death of anykind, from physical to emotional, from individual to social...or in another words losing a sense of Life of anykind whatever we considered Life to be...

Answer 28

failure. not trying hard enough. should have, would have, could have. fear of never being loved. fear of not knowing a Saviour.

Answer 29

All fear is based on ego. Ego wants to keep us separate from God and each other because in union ego fades away. Ego fears love and following our true purpose.

Answer 30

Humans greatest fear is the unknown...death being the greatest unknown of all.