• @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    I reckon it’s because thousands of years ago, humans who instinctively made up monsters to be afraid of were more cautious, so they survived more often when there really was a monster (or a tiger, or a snake, or something), and so they lived longer and reproduced more

    Same with why your first instinct when you hear a rustling in the bushes is something dangerous. Better to be prepared to run from a pack of wolves and be delighted to see a lil opossum than it is to be prepared to see a opossum and get got by a pack of wolves

      • @3ntranced
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        41 year ago

        I no longer wish to exist in this timeline

    • z500
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      1 year ago

      Dude I have a walnut tree in my side yard and it dropped a walnut in the hostas while I was walking to my car at night. I thought I was being stalked lol