Schizoid experiment.

I would certainly say that this schizo would be in heaven and may fend for itself if it wanted to survive!

BlueBits wrote:Or does it thrive and live happily all alone in the wild?

You make it sound like the forest was something out of a Watchtower weekly, or a particularly lurid travel-brochure. No man would thrive and live happily on raw squirrels, insects and dubious-looking roots, schizoid or not. One has some culinary standards.

You have to first establish what exactly "Thriving" is.

By western standards, yes the scenario you lie before us would be quite.. below what we consider to be good, but to an African child who's never seen clean water, and eats rice day in and day out.. the canadian wilderness (along with much of americas) would be a paradise. Fresh water, endless berries and such to eat, along with a very diverse animal population to hunt and consume.


Culinary standards do not exsist in well over 2/3rds of the world, my Ethnocentric friend. Broaden your view a little. It'll do you some good.

Doesn't sound like it would be worth the effort to live in those conditions, I'd probably just throw myself off a high place.

Sunlight_hurts wrote:You have to first establish what exactly "Thriving" is.

By western standards, yes the scenario you lie before us would be quite.. below what we consider to be good, but to an African child who's never seen clean water, and eats rice day in and day out.. the canadian wilderness (along with much of americas) would be a paradise. Fresh water, endless berries and such to eat, along with a very diverse animal population to hunt and consume.


Culinary standards do not exsist in well over 2/3rds of the world, my Ethnocentric friend. Broaden your view a little. It'll do you some good.

^ So do not personality disorders. They come with excess food & stuff, y'know...

(That is, assuming your 'culinary standard' riposte was referring to the starving parts of the world - and not to the US&A ? )

Man, you could make a fortune as a travel-agent, selling luxury New England "survival"-packages to starving African boys... (if only they make the long flight alive)

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On a totally different note, hey - aren't you Eric Lee's newest incarnation?

(Then again, aren't we all Eric Lee?)

Boy I miss him - I still harbour a soft spot for pyromania (not that I ever did anything overtly dangerous or criminal). (There's a pyromania subforum somewhere here, sadly it's dead since long...)

Those are some pretty crummy initial conditions. Assuming I had the skills to identify/hunt for food, I would probably head back towards civilization. 500 miles is an impossible distance to cross if the area is mountainous, and I would want to be no more than 25 miles away from civilization no matter how much I liked being alone. If I had no skills to gather food, I suspect I would die of starvation.

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On a totally different note, hey - aren't you Eric Lee's newest incarnation?

(Then again, aren't we all Eric Lee?)

Boy I miss him - I still harbour a soft spot for pyromania (not that I ever did anything overtly dangerous or criminal). (There's a pyromania subforum somewhere here, sadly it's dead since long...)

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

Who's Zed?

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BlueBits wrote:If you drop a schizoid alone into the woods 5oo miles from the closest town with no map, no food, no water and no supplies what happens to it? Does it lay down and die? Does it get eaten by animals? Or does it thrive and live happily all alone in the wild?

We'll never know until we try it... maybe say... get 200 hardcore diagnosed schizoids, so that we have a reliably population. Drop them into the wild as you said with nothing but a combat knife and see how they fair.

But then since everything thing is relative, we would need a control group. So I say we kidnap 200 normal folks(possibly from the cleveland area and some virgins for lols) and throw them into a jungle also and record the results.

Then we can analyze and publish an elaborate, fancy thesis theory on this and become rich and sip on champagne while getting a swedish hot oil massage.

But that would by unethical.

PerpetualBoredom wrote:We'll never know until we try it... maybe say... get 200 hardcore diagnosed schizoids, so that we have a reliably population. Drop them into the wild as you said with nothing but a combat knife and see how they fair.

But then since everything thing is relative, we would need a control group. So I say we kidnap 200 normal folks(possibly from the cleveland area and some virgins for lols) and throw them into a jungle also and record the results.

Then we can analyze and publish an elaborate, fancy thesis theory on this and become rich and sip on champagne while getting a swedish hot oil massage.

But that would by unethical.

...We'll do it in the name of Science? Doesn't that excuse work?

edit: typo: excuse should be reason