These things have been explained to them time and time again. Yet, when you read their explanations, they consistently get it wrong. Not only that, but they consistently get it wrong with the same wrong answers. They can't even vary in their wrong answers. So what's the point in trying?
Truthfully, there is no reason to keep trying. They're going to believe whatever they want to believe, and nothing's going to change. Someone else on the island will make this same proclamation in the coming months, and the wrong answers from the primitives will be the same wrong answers they gave this time. Rense. Repeat.
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