I feel that after reading this passage we all have experienced Normalcy bias a couple times in our life. I feel that it is a immediate coping mechanism for people who fear death. This is probably the most dangerous coping mechanisms due to the fact that it messes with your fight or flight response. Instead of fighting or running away in a dangerous situation. This may be the new evolution of a trait that will eventually be weened out due to the fact that the people who contain this trait will eventually be killed off.

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On Authority
When talking about authority, he made it seem that any form of authority was in a sense a form of persuasion and changing peoples original mind set to something that they want. I found this very interesting due to the fact i am at the age that he described to be more vulnerable to being persuaded by authority. As a teenager i haven't been to exposed to the world and its persuasive ways and how people will manipulate you to make the world "Better" in their eyes by conforming to whatever their ideal world is. On the other hand they don't even bother with people who are later on in their adult hood due to the fact that they have spent to much time on this earth and know way to much to be persuaded. As young teenager coming into society how do i know whether or not what i think is a persuaded version of what i would normally think due to societies mind twisting ways?