Fear is a powerful biological feeling of unpleasant risk or danger, either real or imagined.
Psychologists such as John B. Watson and Paul Ekman have argued that fear, along with a few other basic emotions such as joy and anger, is innate in all human beings.
Fear may be a consideration in determining the wrongness of acts, in some views. Actions done under stress of fear, unless of course it be so intense as to have dethroned reason, are accounted the legitimate progeny of the human will, or are, as the theologians say, simply voluntary, and therefore imputable. The reason is obvious, such acts lack neither adequate inadvertence nor sufficient consent, even though the latter be elicited only to avoid a greater evil or one conceived to be greater. Inasmuch, however, as they are accompanied by a more or less vehement repugnance, they are said to be in a limited and partial sense of involuntary.
This has been something i have been thinking on for some time. and if fear is innate in all of us, then it is something we must strive to overcome. And this is what we are striving to do as Jedi, to become more than what we are. to overcome those feelings and master them. Obviously if they are innate we cannot deny them, but we can keep them from overpowering our ability to reason. Fear diminishes freedom of action.
