It seems we have a communication problem. I never said to fear one's bike. I never said that I fear riding. Heck, I try to ride every day.
What I said is that a Rider should fear everything around them.
"Are you afraid of what the world can do to you on your little machine? Good! Be afraid. Be very afraid. Learn what your machine and you can do." That's a quote from the post you're referencing.
A Rider should learn how to handle their bike, how well they can ride and recognize the fact that the world is out to hurt them. Badly. Respect the machine. Learn to use the machine to the best of one's abilities, within their riding style, and always have an out.
Fear the world and what it wants to do to you and your machine.
Some months ago, I ran over a cat who crossed the road when I was going home from work at somewhere near midnight. I never saw it until it was near my front tire. Then it was just there. No opportunity to avoid, not opportunity to do anything.
Thankfully, I was running straight at the time, and it just "squished." If I were on a corner at the time, it'd been a lowside.
Running my favorite twisties a few times ago there was some gravel spewed on the road from a driveway on a tight corner. I managed to avoid it, with just a little skip in the front tire. If I hadn't been watching for road debris and such, once again, lowside.
Just recently, riding to work on my bike after a large stormfront went through the area, I noticed a stick in the opposite lane, once again on a curve. Coming home in the dark, I was looking and avoided the stick which had been moved by traffic.
I can keep going on and on. I really can. I prefer my bike to my car and it's almost daily that situational avoidance saves my backside.
It's because I know what the world is going to throw at me, it's because I ride well enough to avoid the stuff (usually) when it comes at me, but mostly it's because I'm smart enough to be afraid of the world.
Be afraid of the world. Keep looking, be aware. Be afraid of what the world is going to throw at you. I'm not saying be afraid of your motorcycle or of riding. Be afraid of the environment. My gosh, it only takes a patch of leaves on a corner to put you down!
Recognize that we're on two wheels, with limited traction and world is out to hurt you.
Fearless riders? Yeah, I nearly met one the other day. I had to buy stuff too big for my bike and took the car to work. A dude on a Harley blew a yield as I was accelerating though a green light.
I had to drop accell, downshift and hit the brakes not hit that idiot. He was fearless. Fearless on a bike is, I'm sorry - let's just say it's unintelligent.
If you've had some things in your life that mean you have to be fearless to ride? Man, I love to ride. Riding is my life. It's my freedom, it's what keeps me going. When those wings come out... WHOOSH, right, then left, control the throttle the brake the angle the lean.. Darn my pulse is up.
My family and my work are honestly the only things I put before riding. I LOVE to ride. I might also ride a little *ahem* spirited at times.
I've been riding since the mid eighties and I've had my downs and trashed a bike or two.
I'm saying honestly: Fear the world.
Fearless is not good. On a personal level, f you ride without fear, I humbly suggest you don't ride. There are people who love you. Don't leave them.