Ancient man faced breaking on the wheel and crucifixion and was barely deterred. Modern man cowers in the face of being suspended from twitter for a week. You might, horror of horrors, even lose your job. *gasp*
IQ numbs emotions. Dose-response.
What if moderns are so affected by e.g. a death because their emotions are all on blast due to a bug? It's tuned against much higher IQs than moderns manage to touch. They can't handle the intensity of life because they're too stupid to damp their springs correctly.
Same reason children are overexcitable. It's not an adaptation, it's an accident of jank. Their emotions are tuned against adult IQ, but their IQ hasn't reached adult level yet, so their feelings tend to rattle around in their skull like pinballs. See also: willpower is IQ-modulated, resulting in irresistable impulses when you're young, probably. (I wouldn't know anything about that.)
IQ is calming. Moderns aren't smart enough to keep themselves calm.
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