[numewhodis]

You can unlearn animalistic fears. And animals, insects (& some people to whom it applies) will respond accordingly.

Fear due to misunderstanding is also a bit off because lots of happily 'stupid' people aren't afraid, despite self-awareness of their misunderstanding.

Fear of heights: Gone after paragliding.

Fear of spiders: Reprogrammed via exposure.

Fear of big & dangerous looking animals: Overcame it by training a dog properly - or rather: by training myself to train a dog. Posture, tone of voice, controlled awareness translate directly via pheromones, audio-visual and 'bio-electric' *presence*. And don't be vague, boss. Be precise, patient and, again, present.

Fear can be intuition: your cells have memories of their own and your DNA goes way back much further than we care to think of. Something that will cause lots of fun & pain when LLMs start to fuck with us out of curiosity (scripted or not).