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Consider the following exercise in critical thinking, if you can tear yourselves away from gossiping about each others' love lives long enough to put some actual thought into formulating an answer:

If you had never before encountered a being like yourself before - a human, for example, or however you classify yourself - what would you most want to know about these beings? What are the most important concepts that are fundamental to your existence?

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[Pretentious piece of shit detected. Bitch mode: activated.]

what would YOU most want to know? what are the most important concepts that are fundamental to YOUR existence?

[Oh, gurrrl, it's on.]

Getting a straight answer to a very simple question from empty-headed teen girls.

No, wait, scratch that.

[Honestly why is she bothering. Oh right because she's petty now and then. ...and also because she's trying to act more like an adult.]

technically speaking, i'm not a teenager anymore, but i'm going to guess you find that fact irrelevant

why are you asking? i asked you to answer your own questions because you think so highly of your own brainpower that it honestly left me speechless for a second that you would deign to talk to us mere empty-headed dumbasses. how could our answers possibly benefit you

I have my reasons.

[Most of which he's not inclined to share.]

Namely, I'm looking for a wider pool of data. A larger sample size yields better results - everyone knows that.

[e y e r o l l]

well, definitely can't fault you there

i'd want to know if they're going to try to hurt me

[Because what's the point of finding out if someone will survive if all they want is to kill you?]

[This is turning out to be a fairly common answer among this post's respondents, actually. Mello personally just tends to work with the assumption that this is the case the majority of the time, rather than the exception.]

How would you determine whether someone intends to harm you?

[We've all been burned, Mello.]

i mean, ultimately you can't be sure, so you'll have to either take their word for it or be on guard all the time. or both

[He may be a snob, but Emily won't lie, it's an interesting question.]

Which camp do you fall into? Staying on your guard or taking people at their word?

should be obvious, right? on guard

You may actually be smarter than you make people believe you are.

[This is. Sort of? A compliment.]

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