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Not to play apologist, but I'd say that people's intuitions for danger and conflict are far too broken to justify blanket acceptance or rejection of actions carrying those emotional tags. Playing chicken with a 300-pound Sumatran tiger is a dangerous act tagged correctly, granted, but ancestral instincts don't often do that a good job of carrying over: people's intuitions for social, technological, or habitual dangers are often completely out of whack relative to their actual importance, and habituation might well be indicated in many cases. Conflict being more of a social construction, I can't make blanket statements about it as easily, but I strongly suspect similar considerations would apply.
I agree with the rest of your comment.
I can agree with this. There was a time when I considered 'a conversation with a random person' to be more or less a dangerous situation. It took a lot of brain hacking to get myself out of THAT.