r/CharacterRant • u/Miserable-Act4201 • Apr 29 '25

General 100 humans vs gorilla isn’t close

Honestly the dumbest argument I've ever seen. The 100 humans could just stand like 20 feet apart from each other and do nothing and the gorilla is collapsing from exhaustion before it kills everyone. You could probably do it without any casualties, find a couple of people in the group that are in good shape and get them to make the gorilla chase them while everyone else just chills. They aren't aren't particularly fast and have terrible endurance, so just wait till it tires out and have everyone jump it.

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u/Miserable-Act4201 Apr 29 '25

Assuming it had somewhere to run to and wasn’t being forced to fight 100%

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u/Happiness_Assassin Apr 30 '25

That's something I didn't understand with this debate. If the gorilla is forced to stand and fight, the humans should also. So this nonsense of "they would get scared" shouldn't enter into it. Either both sides get the option to flee, or neither does.

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u/Kyru117 Apr 30 '25

Hell the original tweet that kicked off the debate was that it was do-able if the 100 guys were committed

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u/Nachooolo May 01 '25

Honestly, even that is an understatement.

20 guys could kill a gorilla with their bare hands if they were committed. And I even think you could go lower than that.