Fear
As promised, this is my post on my theory on "fear". More accurately, I would call it the "Basic principles of human emotions". I was inpired by "Neon Genesis Evangelion" to come out with this theory. I believe that all human emotions stem from fear, and I call fear a fundemental emotion. This emotion drove the human race thus far, and I believe it will be the death of human race as well.

As we know, fear is an emotion of self preservation, of selfishness, of self-interest. Hence we can easily conclude that it is a basic fundemental emotion that humans have for it is within our nature to protect ourselves. Then how is it linked to other emotions? How are the other emotions based on fear?

Let’s take for example the emotion of jealousy. Its man’s desire of what that belongs to others. Firstly the man has to feel a fear, a fear of not having what other people have, of not possessing the best. This fear drives him to crave, to yearn for what is not his, even up to a point where other emotions such as hate is involved. This is called jealousy.

We now investigate into greed. Greed is the feeling of inadequacy, the need to have more and better of something. Similar, fear of not having enough for oneself drives this emotion.

Most of the negative emotions can be explained in a similar way as of the two above-mentioned examples.

We shall now look into positive emotions. Love is one of the strongest positive emotions. It brings about care and self-sacrifice. But love is still fear driven. The fear of being alone compels a man to love another, to protect her, to care for her, even to give up his life for her. It makes one willing to give up many things just for company. If a person sacrifice his life to save another, who would suffer more? The person, who sacrificed, is just dead. The person who is saved has to face the consequence of guilt. (Guilt is fear driven as well as it is the fear of retribution. This emotion is not very well thought though; I’ll have to KIV first)

Other emotions are simply a composite of two or more emotion of which all stems from fear. Hope is one such emotion where it is the penultimate of fear and love (Mike has a hand in this part of the theory too).

Although this theory is not perfected and there are many creases to be ironed out, this is as much as I have thought for now. Mike seems to believe that fear and love are both fundamental emotions, but that is a debate I would like to reserve for the future in case we get too bored, we still have something to argue about.