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Would you be more afraid to meet a bear in the forest late at night, or a woman?

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You get no more context. Black ops dudes have snatched you and are going to drop you into a situation; you get only the choice: bear, or woman.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do we get the context of ursine or big hairy gay guy or are we going in blind with that too?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Blind. It's always blind.

I don't remember who it was, but some historian once said you could estimate how good and fair a time period is by imagining that you are going to be born at random into it. You don't get to choose your parents, and statistics are the factor - this isn't a monkey's paw wish, it's a random number generator.

In this case, if you pick "bear," you're going to get a random bear from all the bears in the world. If you're a man, you get a random one of the 4 billion(ish) adult women on the planet. Of you're a woman, you get a random man.

It could be a Giant Panda; it could be a Polar Bear. Statistically, probably some sort of black bear; but it's random.

Odds are you're going to get an Asian person: Indian, Chinese, whatever. But you could also get some big, aggressive person magically yanked out of solitary: random.