It depends on your mindset. For most pilots and many others it is hard to understand the fear going on in the minds of those not familiar with aircraft, or boats, or firearms, or philosophy, or a host of other things in life. There is a certain reason to fear many things and a certain reason to understand the false basis for fear in many things.

We fear what we do not understand. That fear can be extreme and without any basis in fact, but it is as real and firm as concrete.