Coltan Scrivner

They have machine guns, for God's sake.

Yeah, yeah, they have machine guns.

And there's lots of studies showing that specific thing that if you show people a picture of a hand holding a screwdriver or a hammer, and then you show people another hand holding a handgun,

And you ask people, hey, imagine who's holding this, right?

What do they look like?

How big are they?

How tall are they?

How strong are they?

Interestingly, they will say that the person holding the gun, they'll imagine them in their mind's eye as larger, stronger, more formidable.

And that's because the mind is...

Taking the fact that this person has a gun, that makes them stronger and more dangerous.

And the mind maps that onto this very evolutionarily old cognitive mapping of bigger things are stronger.

So when you go to imagine it, you imagine it's bigger and stronger, right?

So even when we see Arnold Schwarzenegger and then we see him with a machine gun, we're imagining like, oh, my God, this guy is not vulnerable at all.

And then you tack on to the fact that he has Green Beret training and he also has a lot of allies.

Now, they are in a forest.

They're kind of in an unknown place.

They're kind of at a disadvantage in that way.

But as soon as they get attacked by the predator, they then start planning how to attack back.

And in horror movies, you never do that unless you're like truly cornered, just like animals.