Warning – this may be boring if you slept through your evolution lecture – but I rather enjoyed this post:
But, you know me. Or maybe you don’t – so I’ll remind you that I have to ruin everything remotely enjoyable via over-thinking, endless “what ifs”, and internal interrogations. Thus, upon reading it, I immediately found the potential flaws in the experiment, and asked myself:
But what if the thumb to forefinger strength ratio is uneven? In general – or from one round to the next?
And does Luke keep the previous champion against the same finger for the next round? Or does he reposition them prior to the next dulcet duel?
If he does switch the reigning candy to a different digit, does he continue to apply pressure to the same side as in the previous round? Or does he about-face the sweet soldier before it takes to battle?
Would this set an advantage or disadvantage for the delicious Darwinian warriors? Does Luke’s discovery now create a bias against the blues? Is he subconsciously self fulfilling his own prophecy to prove himself right?
More importantly, does that make Luke racist?
So many questions these poor M&Ms must have for life’s unfair complexities. I’m sure they’ve found an acceptable religion by now where Luke is their cruel and unfair God.
In fact, in this M&M dystopia (thanks to these variables like uneven thumb and finger force destroying evolution), Luke may have at least created the only world in which survival of the fittest is but a flawed theory, and God exists…
… as a racist who favors only Native Americans and Mexicans.
xoxo
<3~A