stackyFACTSWe are a species completely addicted to our own familiar suffering. Studies on uncertainty show that people experience vastly more stress when told they *might* receive an electric shock than when told they *definitely* will. The human brain would rather guarantee a disaster than sit in the terrifying limbo of hope.
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