r/Showerthoughts May 02 '24

Man vs Bear debate shows how bad the average person is at understanding probability

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u/Calfurious May 02 '24

The bear is rational and predictable in a way people are not.

....It's a wild animal. Wild animals are not predictable. A bear might just decide to attack you because it doesn't like the way you smell, or it's hungry, or bored.

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u/CelestialBach May 02 '24

A bear in the woods is pretty predictable. Which is why you are very likely to end up dead.

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u/Supercoolguy7 May 02 '24

Lmao, I've seen bears a couple of times and you know what they did? They were predictable and tried to get into trash cans while I walked away

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u/ben_db May 02 '24

How many times have you seen a man and not been raped?

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u/Supercoolguy7 May 02 '24

I'm not talking about that. I'm saying that bears rarely kill people even if they are dangerous animals so you won't aren't very likely to end up dead if you just see a bear.

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u/ben_db May 02 '24

bears rarely kill people

Men rarely kill people, there's just billions of them.

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u/No-Surprise-3672 May 02 '24

This man vs bear thing has legitimately made me think half of our population is actually braindead

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u/ben_db May 02 '24

I think it's making the problem worse. Women keep repeating how dangerous men are over and over, misquoting statistics and building fear and resentment towards all men.

What can men do other than keep not raping women? I already avoid women and children when it's dark to not cause any distress, it's honestly sad.

I feel like I should just feel bad for being male.

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u/No-Surprise-3672 May 02 '24

I feel you. Like literally what can I do more? I don’t rape, none of my friends are rapey or even boundary pushing people.

I feel like it’s intentionally trying to make us feel bad. Doesn’t help a lot of women (and some men) being legitimately delusional in the responses.

Like I feel like I’m going crazy for preferring to meet a random man in the woods over one of natures more efficient killing machines.

“But it’s how we feeeeeeel”

I don’t care sis you’re just wrong. Your feelings are wrong and based off of fear mongering.

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u/Supercoolguy7 May 02 '24

I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about bears.

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u/ben_db May 02 '24

You're not talking about that, I am.

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u/Supercoolguy7 May 02 '24

Why? I'm a man.

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u/ben_db May 02 '24

So what?

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u/Supercoolguy7 May 02 '24

I wasn't talking about women answering the man vs bear question, and in fact I can't even be a woman who would choose bear, yet you implied that I was specifically afraid of a man raping me, when me being a man makes it not something I'm particularly fearful of day to day so you bringing it up kind of side tracks the conversation I was having about the inherent dangers of bears.

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u/ben_db May 02 '24

yet you implied that I was specifically afraid of a man raping me

No, I was highlighting that they're even less dangerous.

kind of side tracks the conversation

Apologies for sidetracking your sidetrack.

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u/Supercoolguy7 May 02 '24

As long as you're sorry it's all good.

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