homunculus-argument:

Some situations in life are like when a cat chases a bear up a tree. Logically, you know that a bear could kill the cat with one blow with no effort at all. But a bear has no concept of how cats work. To a bear, everything that’s made out of meat will fight back before becoming prey, once escaping this fate is no longer an option, but nothing that could flee would choose not to, and attack the bear first. As far as a bear is concerned, there is nothing out there that would attack a bear without an absolute confidence that it could kill a bear. If something hits you first, you fucking run.

And cats have no concept of how anything works. As far as a cat is concerned, if there’s something in your face that you don’t want in your face, you just fucking smack it. And if something starts fleeing from you, you chase it.

Sometimes in life there are situations where there only seems to be one logical outcome, the common sense one that seems foregone conclusion. But it only looks like that because you have a clear and realistic view of the big picture. Then the only logical conclusion doesn’t happen, because nobody actually involved in the situation has a realistic understanding of what’s going on.