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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: When faced with stress or danger, why do people soil themselves?
gpt
Its due to our sympathetic nervous system. Its the one responsible for Flee or Fight.

While it sends all energy to your muscles and brain it puts a holt on your digestive system so it does not waste energy digesting things and sends that energy to be used for our reaction.

Everything in body that is not essential to the body in terms of quick reaction where its a matter of life and death is put on hold so you can survive.