You find yourself in a hallway running north-south.  Conveniently, you have no knowledge of where you are or how you got here.  Directly in front of you, to the north, is a large and hungry-looking tiger.  Its eyes say “I will eat you” and its mouth also says “I will eat you.”  You see a door in the wall on the east side.  

  1. Duck through the door to the east
  2. Run away to the south
  3. Surrender to the tiger
  4. Attack the tiger with the sword you assume that you have
  5. Hang on, it said “I will eat you” out of its mouth?  Is that a metaphor or what’s the deal?  If the tiger is speaking English, that’s a whole different set of circumstances and maybe you can reason with the tiger?  Let’s reason with the tiger.