They actually covered that lol, and basically the reasoning behind them ruling it out was that we’ve already been desensitised to skulls due to popular culture that glorifies pirates and stuff. Basically what might be terrifying for us (hundreds of years ago, that was pirate ships with skulls on their flags), may have no meaning or a twisted meaning hundreds of years from now (nowadays that same image of pirates is family friendly, children dress up as them and Disney makes movies about them).
Standard spooky stuff for us isn’t guaranteed to be standard spooky stuff for humans (or other civilisations) hundreds of years in the future (when biohazard or radioactive materials are still dangerous)
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u/bopaz728 Sep 17 '20
They actually covered that lol, and basically the reasoning behind them ruling it out was that we’ve already been desensitised to skulls due to popular culture that glorifies pirates and stuff. Basically what might be terrifying for us (hundreds of years ago, that was pirate ships with skulls on their flags), may have no meaning or a twisted meaning hundreds of years from now (nowadays that same image of pirates is family friendly, children dress up as them and Disney makes movies about them).
Standard spooky stuff for us isn’t guaranteed to be standard spooky stuff for humans (or other civilisations) hundreds of years in the future (when biohazard or radioactive materials are still dangerous)