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View submission: /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | January 27, 2020
I would agree with your two later points, however for the former, I would say that rather than threat it might be the how emotionally invested we are for the outcome to be the one we have created in our mind. And it also comes down to the hope and anticipation. If you have no hope but don’t care either and has totally accepted the arbitrariness of reality, a nihilist, then you don’t have anxiety, but if you are optimistic you still have hope for things to turn out into the ideal one but also have the realization that it might not happen, hence have anxiety. And if your a pessimist, you have no hope at all, and have totally accepted the lack of control, however you still want things to be in the way you envisioned, lets say you actually have accepted the fact but haven’t been able to embrace it, hence gives rise to anxiety.
Comment by EveryNameWasTaken27 at 30/01/2020 at 23:43 UTC
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I feel like fear for losing your emotional investment is the same as fearing a threat (because it is a threat to your emotional investment). I'd still rather say threat because it is more universal, for example the fear of being physically hurt is also caused by fear of pain and not just emotional investment.