if 6.5 million people had been eaten by tigers and there was suddenly a new wave of super-tigers that could evade all existing anti-tiger precautions, people would think you'd lost the plot if you declared that the tiger problem was basically over
@VeryBadLlama we face an incredible and apparently insurmountable problem when the tigers are small enough to hitch rides on water droplets and eat you from the inside out, because the people that don't want to get injected with tiger repellant are also vehemently against the faceguards
@currentbias@VeryBadLlama Well my boss says if you believe extra hard that you won't get tigers it won't happen to you, and that tiger anxiety opens you up to more and more tigers. The guy doesn't seem to have a lot of experience with tigers or big cats in general but he seems very self-assured about his approach to this. I can tell he has confidence because he brings it up constantly and doesn't let his kids ask me questions about my tiger-repellant gear. 👍