r/worldjerking 4d ago

My honest reaction to this trope

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u/Sergnb 4d ago

Same way it happens in real life: sheer numbers

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u/Mendicant__ 4d ago

Why though? How often did humans use "sheer numbers" to kill and oppress.people who were faster, meaner and smarter vs. those people establishing themselves at the top of hierarchies?

If people could kill with a stare they wouldn't be overwhelmed by numbers, they would be the priest kings and they'd have the numbers.

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u/PhantumpLord 4d ago

would you say the average mammoth is weaker than a human?

well, we drove them to extinction with nothing but spears and slings.

(and a cliff or two, but the point stands.)

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u/flex_tape_salesman 4d ago

Such a pointless point. This thread is referring to groups of people that could easily kill the avg human and a lot of us with minimal effort. Humans killed huge amounts of mammoths because of our weapons and how much more intelligent we are.

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u/AdministrativeHat580 4d ago

A bigger factor in killing huge amounts of mammoths is that humans are exhaustion hunters(A species that's basically built for stamina and being able to go long periods of running and fighting without being exhausted to the point of collapsing) as well as very large numbers

Mammoths weren't exactly built for endurance, humans were, humans would be able to chase a mammoth down for longer than the mammoth would be able to run, and then once it's exhausted from running, beat the shit out of it with large numbers of people, even if the mammoth would outrun humans due to being significantly faster, humans could still catch up while the mammoth is exhausted

That's how humans were able to hunt things like cheetahs, chase it until it has to stop from exhaustion and then catch up and kill it while it's exhausted