What's you Rational fear?

That's one hell of a question you may have to answer.However, i would like to shed some light on the unreasoning fear in countries in the western world.This fear makes us look foolish and sometimes,deadly decisions when we deal with risks. There are dangers in these irrational fear,an example is the uncle sam's(US) response to September 11 attack.
The diference in safety between driving and flying is quite enormous, flying is remotely safer than driving.During post September 11, most Americans fled the airports and since they needed to go around, they started driving instead and generally when you have millions of people that increases the risk of something,you can imagine the consequences(dire):This shift from the airport to the roads resulted in the loss of many lives on the road.
Clearly, the brains we are using to try to grapple with this radically changed information environment were shaped in the Stone Age, so there's a radical mismatch between our intuitive systems for understanding risks and the world as it exists today.Ask yourself this: before these last few decades, what sort of information environment do people live in?One of the toughest issues is whether people are irrationally afraid or if there are simply different fears.
If you look at Western countries, you will find in country after country -are our parents worried about their children being snatched by strangers?I suspect they are. Are they allowing them to play less outdoors unsupervised? I suspect they are. Do they put them in cars and drive them to school because they're afraid that they'll be abducted by strangers? I suspect they are.And why is that? I think it's because of this information environment.
I have just realised i should have used a different title may be"West faces an epidemic of irrational fear",unfortunately i can't undo the title.So guys i guese my next post will be on Rational fear.