The death devil IS the strongest devil and it DOES make sense.
I’ve seen people question why the death devil is supposedly the strongest in the verse. They bring up arguments like some people not fearing death, or that the only thing that can make people without an amygdala (the fear part of the brain) scared is suffocation instead of death. While yes both of these are true, they ARE NOT at all valid. If you don’t fear death, that’s a you problem, and the VAST majority of people on the entire planet do fear death. And the amygdala folk are just plain dumb, why would people be scared of suffocation? BECAUSE IT KILLS YOU. ALMOST EVERY FEAR THAT ANY CREATURE HAS IS AN EMOTION DESIGNED TO PREVENT THEM FROM DYING. FEAR ITSELF IS LIFE’S DEFENCE MECHANISM AGAINST DEATH. WHY DO PEOPLE FEAR THE DARK? CUZ WHAT MIGHT BE IN IT COULD KILL YOU. FALLING? FALLING KILLS YOU. GUNS, KNIVES, CHAINSAWS, WAR, SHARKS, SPIDERS, SNAKES, FAMINE, AGING. NEARLY EVERY DEVIL IS JUST THE FEAR OF SOMETHING THAT CAN KILL YOU. THE ONLY EXCEPTIONS ARE THE DEVILS LIKE ETERNITY, FUTURE, HELL AND CONTROL, BECAUSE THOSE DEVILS DONT KILL YOU, THEY RUIN YOUR LIFE. The ONLY other devil I can see being debated as the strongest is the suffering devil, because nobody wants to suffer, but that’s not a primal fear, it doesn’t exist in animals, because suffering isn’t as common in nature as death, suffering is a human problem. Death is absolute. You will die, you cannot stop it, no matter how much you fear it. It’s coming.
TL;DR. Nearly every fear links back to death, death is where fear comes from. If death itself wasn’t the most feared thing on the planet then what would be? Nothing. Because death IS fear.
I’ve seen people question why the death devil is supposedly the strongest in the verse. They bring up arguments like some people not fearing death, or that the only thing that can make people without an amygdala (the fear part of the brain) scared is suffocation instead of death. While yes both of these are true, they ARE NOT at all valid. If you don’t fear death, that’s a you problem, and the VAST majority of people on the entire planet do fear death. And the amygdala folk are just plain dumb, why would people be scared of suffocation? BECAUSE IT KILLS YOU. ALMOST EVERY FEAR THAT ANY CREATURE HAS IS AN EMOTION DESIGNED TO PREVENT THEM FROM DYING. FEAR ITSELF IS LIFE’S DEFENCE MECHANISM AGAINST DEATH. WHY DO PEOPLE FEAR THE DARK? CUZ WHAT MIGHT BE IN IT COULD KILL YOU. FALLING? FALLING KILLS YOU. GUNS, KNIVES, CHAINSAWS, WAR, SHARKS, SPIDERS, SNAKES, FAMINE, AGING. NEARLY EVERY DEVIL IS JUST THE FEAR OF SOMETHING THAT CAN KILL YOU. THE ONLY EXCEPTIONS ARE THE DEVILS LIKE ETERNITY, FUTURE, HELL AND CONTROL, BECAUSE THOSE DEVILS DONT KILL YOU, THEY RUIN YOUR LIFE. The ONLY other devil I can see being debated as the strongest is the suffering devil, because nobody wants to suffer, but that’s not a primal fear, it doesn’t exist in animals, because suffering isn’t as common in nature as death, suffering is a human problem. Death is absolute. You will die, you cannot stop it, no matter how much you fear it. It’s coming.
TL;DR. Nearly every fear links back to death, death is where fear comes from. If death itself wasn’t the most feared thing on the planet then what would be? Nothing. Because death IS fear.