I think if they're honestly not being hyperbolic, they should find a less technical career or hobby. If you're afraid of flying, don't join the Air Force.
If you examine the stats with the assumption that you could be one who dies early and probably won't take up opioids then there is some logical reasoning to do about your relationship with cars and death. "Mistaking" that for fear is a defense mechanism.
The situation of the worse is better crowd and computer security increasingly looks like one of these things that I don't want to apply such a defense mechanism to.
Linux has not really gotten us closer to eliminating Windows yet it has eliminated a lot of the other approaches to eliminating Windows. Maybe it is only on par with the escooters that can now run me down on the sidewalk but don't seem to have reduced my risk from cars.
You seem to have a very healthy fear of other things, like drivers or scooters running you over, and media buttons on computers launching life-altering software. I'm betting your fear of death might not be healthy, but possibly unhealthy in the sense you're spending your life worrying about things that... well, likely aren't gonna happen to you.
Left right left and all that.
