I don't know about dumbest move in Survivor history. I've always questioned the set of moves that the people who get voted off first do (assuming its not that they're voted off due to oldness).
It was stupid for pure strategic reasons, and in my mind philosophical as well. I think I'm becoming a socialist as I age!
Strategically, it would have essentially guaranteed her immunity from the next vote as no one is going to vote off the person who just gave them a car because they'll go back and tell all the other jurors about it, and no-one wants to be seen as the instigator of it. While the reward overtly to give someone a car, its real value should have been to act as another immunity win for at least this past episode.
Not only does she refuse to give the others the cars, she proceeds to return to the camp bragging about how nice they (the cars) are! Come on! Those people were not going to say, "Wow, terrific, we're so happy for you". Instead, they've already had an entire night to stew over how, in their minds, she took their cars away from them.
Philosophically I think it was a stupid move for a couple reasons:
1. How many opportunities does the "everyman" or "everywoman" get to give four friends or acquaintances new cars? Approximately zero. How many do you get to buy yourself a new car? Um ... several?
2. If she had given the others their cars, the automaker (or another looking for some good publicity) would have given her one of her own at the live finale anyway. It's not like she'd be out anything. And she couldn't get the car until after the finale anyway.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Sometimes the people on these shows make me think it would be fairly easy to cruise to at least this point in the game if only us Canadians had the ability to be on it either through a Canadian edition or being allowed on the CBS one.
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