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Why do we care if they are not proven to the world? If people don't want to know, isn't it their right to be unenlightened?

And a Happy New Year to you too, Hiflier. You are right about what we do to other humans & I agree that the BFs are in danger from some of us. But so called "government protection" from us would surely not do them any more good that it did the Indians. The very government that put them under it's "protection", killed them by the thousands & imprisoned the survivors on reservations to die from starvation & disease under it's "care". I don't think there is any possibility that the government will ever be able to do that to the Bigfoots, but if their existence was proven, it would only bring more hunters, whether illegal or not, down on them. I can't think of anything that hasn't suffered under government supervision, nor of any reason that they or us would benefit from their official "discovery".

I don't understand how you can say that yet promote official discovery. They are people, whether human or not, or we'd have found them already. Considering our track record with the cultures of Native American cultures here and other indigenous peoples elsewhere in the world, how can you possibly rationalize promoting discovery? That's like putting a pedophile in charge of the day care center. I'm completely aghast at the level of obliviousness and denial necessary in that position. MIB

I'm curious how you came up with all this. 1. The report evidence refutes your belief. 2. What leads you to think they're any more an ape than you are? 3. How would eating deer make them easily trackable? MIB

Caves are problematic. First of all while they are shelter of sorts, if you had a tribe of BF or humans for that matter living in one, you would have to establish protocol to prevent the cave from being a caldron of disease. For prevention of disease, it is far better to not be cooped up with a bunch of others of your species in an environment like a cave. While there are exceptions, most of the human cave occupation in Europe was during the last ice ace. It might have been a shelter of last resort just to make it through the long winters of the ice age. For humans, the art associated with caves, points to them being spiritual places either exclusively or in conjunction with shelter. Perhaps BF had no attraction caves because they seem to have no interest in rock drawings, and do not need caves for shelter like humans? There is something about the BF brain that does not support the creative bent that humans have. Probably wired differently. That would seem to carry over into construction of fabricated tools. Humans were doing art, right along with fabricated tool development, creation of baskets, and construction of clothing throughout much of our history. BF may not need some of that, but perhaps more because it is not capable of that level of creativity, than need. You cannot tell me that a BF in Michigan or Canada would not welcome use of clothing in the winter.

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