Perhaps this explains why people love vampire stories or women write to serial killers in prison. We all like to come close to death but not actually touch it. Maybe there’s some little survival lesson we can learn, or perhaps our brain makes us think that we’re somehow winning by not dying. I’m sure there’s some evolutionary advantage to wanting to get close enough to death and evil to gain some awareness without getting too close. Maybe seeing how that person died on the side of the road will remind us to look both ways. Maybe learning a fishing village was wiped out makes us feel better
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