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Yes. If you change all the terms of the thought experiment the outcome is different.

What an unexpected result!

It is truly amazing to me how few people understand even the elementary aspects of risk management.

A known danger is easier to manage than an unknown one.

Bears are dangerous, but largely predictable. They usually don't go after humans at all (and indeed usually go the other direction). And if they seem angry, there's simple things you can do (it rhymes with "back away slowly" because identical rhymes are still rhymes) that will defuse the situation almost immediately.

Men are for the most part decent human beings. Most men you meet will not be monsters. The problem is that there's really no way to distinguish the monsters from the decent men until it's way too late. And extricating yourself from an interaction with a strange man in the forest is not as straightforward as it is for a bear. Backing away slowly might work, or it might trigger that silicon chip inside their brain and slip it to "overload" and make them get angry that you don't trust them. And the penalty for making a bad choice is serious bodily harm as the good outcome. There are worse ones after that.

So just from straightforward risk assessment it's better to meet a bear in the woods than a strange man. Because a bear is more predictable and easier to manage.

I thought Edmonton was my home. All my conscious life I was in Edmonton. (I'd actually moved there from Germany at the age of 18 months but of course have no memory of this.)

Then in 1975 I had all that torn away. The tender roots I'd been forming, ripped out of me. I spent the next decade or so of my life bouncing around both inside and outside of Canada.

I have no hometown now. Nowhere that I can return to. My family is scattered across three continents and I hardly ever see any of them.

That's the bad side.

The good side is that I'm very independent. Kidnap me and drop me off blind-folded anywhere in the world and I'll make a place for myself.

The Republic.

Orchestrate Nazis? Musk's Empty Lies Orchestrate Nazis? MELON?

I've been working on something to spell out MELON. So far I've got Musk's Empty Lies, but I can't find anything yet for the ON part. Still working.

Smoking.

Incombustible.

(ahem Inflammable and flammable mean the same thing.)

It's even funnier when MGTOW does it. MGTOW is supposed to mean "Men Going Their Own Way" but for people "going their own way" they seem to spend a lot of time stalking anywhere that women gather so they can whine about how badly women treat men.

Men Getting Triggered Over Women seems to be a better backronym.

Yes it's what you think it is. I don't think, however, that there is anywhere to report it that will care enough to do something about it.

Hot.