• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    Really? And what exactly is a human naturally equipped with, that can do any kind of damage to a gorilla? Lol!

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      12 days ago

      Fingers, arms and teeth?

      Assuming the gorilla was successfully exhausted, you can continuously rip fur from it. Or you can bite it - human teeth and our jaw muscle are strong enough to go reasonably deep. That takes a lot of time though.

      Or, provided you are able to coordinate properly, 10 people can hold down the exhausted gorilla which would allow the remaining people to strangle it by sitting on his neck or something. The jaw could probably be held shut by a single person since jaw muscles suck at opening the jaw.

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        12 days ago

        All we would do, is break our hands, feet and teeth trying to do any kind of damage. Meanwhile, a gorilla can crush your skull with a single swat, or break your femur by simply squeezing and twisting its wrist. It wouldn’t even require enough energy to eventually get exhausted.

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      12 days ago

      No one is saying that you’re just chucking a Gorilla and a Human/group of humans into a ring.

      if the human/humans know that they will be fighting a Gorilla then they can fashion weapons and strategies.

      A single human could easily kill a gorilla if they could choose the time and place of the engagement.

      It’s how we became the dominant species on the planet

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        12 days ago

        The premise is and has always been 100 unarmed humans (I think men, specifically).

        That is exactly what everyone has been saying the whole time. 100 unarmed humans in a ring with 1 gorilla.

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          12 days ago

          I’ve not heard unarmed being specified. but that’s not how humans fight.

          You could start unarmed and then improvise a weapon

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            12 days ago

            Right, I don’t know how you missed it, it’s been unarmed the whole time. It’s built into the premise of the original viral post.

            It’s a hypothetical. What you’re saying right now doesn’t matter. The hypothetical premise has always been “unarmed”. Look it up lol.

            Edit: i looked it up and cannot find the “original hypothetical premise” I claimed existed, so, fuck me.

            That being said… yeah. One man with a weapon bodies a gorilla. People are so fucking stupid.