@leespringfield1903 @dictatordave The problem is that this kind of thinking is almost always a directed reasoning, where you are *searching* for the reason this happened. Which is fine, but it lends to streching facts to make theories fit.

For instance - the bear is much more ferocious than you give it credit for.

iirc, Bear was a PIE word which likely became taboo to say: linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/48031/is-there-any-evidence-that-the-modern-word-for-bear-is-an-euphemism-which-repl