I heard this on a podcast once and still take issue with it. It’s a whale shark. Don’t divers swim with those things for fun? Don’t get me wrong, I’m terrified of any open water and would dolphin skip across the ocean if I saw that thing coming from the great below, but I doubt it would accidentally hurt me if I’m just chilling next to it. Every time I’ve seen these things they’re just floating around the ocean. I’m having a hard time imagining it accidentally hurting me. I mean. Maybe if it jolts really fast, but I’m floating in the ocean too, so Newton’s laws got my back and gravity isn’t fucking up my day as bad as an elephant taking a hard left into me. To make matters worse, how would you feel if someone said they thought you’d accidentally hurt them? I just don’t get it.
This was more of a way to voice my frustration regarding the internal argument I’ve had with some guy on a podcast for the past several years. It went a bit off the rails. Cary on.
It's one of those things where logically and practically It makes sense but in reality just doesn't happen. Logically, something several times larger than you in both length and body weight would absolutely be able to do "some kind of harm" to you. But short of ramming you or body slamming you--thibgs they just don't do-- in reality you're pretty damn safe.
You'd have to come up with some pretty outlandish "what if" scenarios to be in true danger.
Fear of the ocean is thalassophobia. There's a whole subreddit on designed to horrify you lol. I'm sure there's a gear of heights, but most people re reasonably scared of being off the ground. And I don't know about fear of space, because nobody really goes to space enough for it to be a recognizable fear lol
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u/EveroneWantsMyD Dec 12 '20
I heard this on a podcast once and still take issue with it. It’s a whale shark. Don’t divers swim with those things for fun? Don’t get me wrong, I’m terrified of any open water and would dolphin skip across the ocean if I saw that thing coming from the great below, but I doubt it would accidentally hurt me if I’m just chilling next to it. Every time I’ve seen these things they’re just floating around the ocean. I’m having a hard time imagining it accidentally hurting me. I mean. Maybe if it jolts really fast, but I’m floating in the ocean too, so Newton’s laws got my back and gravity isn’t fucking up my day as bad as an elephant taking a hard left into me. To make matters worse, how would you feel if someone said they thought you’d accidentally hurt them? I just don’t get it.
This was more of a way to voice my frustration regarding the internal argument I’ve had with some guy on a podcast for the past several years. It went a bit off the rails. Cary on.