Scomagia wrote:Infected Mushroom wrote:
you do realise how incredibly offensive these views are to the people who were responsible enough to report what they saw?
you're basically calling a lot of people unstable here. I find this position a bit offensive (not saying I'm a reporting eyewitness but I'm just surprised at how firm you are on this).
It's not instability. It's a very basic flaw (or perhaps an evolutionary benefit, since it's better to see a lion in the grass when there actually isn't one, rather than not seeing one that's actually there) in the human brain. It effects everyone from every culture equally. There's nothing offensive about it.
the probability that every single person (and there have been at least hundreds of sightings) was malfunctioning to that degree (where they are convinced they saw Big Foot) is basically non-existent.
Its much more plausible that at least at one point in history, at least one of those people saw the real deal.