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because bread tastes better than key

The Buddhists answered this with a koan:
Once a bull wanted to leave an enclosure
it could get its head out
it could get its side out
it could get its legs out
but that one little tail was still stuck in the enclosure
so the bull was 100% still trapped in the enclosure
oh that little tail!
if you can’t get away you might as well have some bread

because bread tastes better than key

maybe because the mans will to eat outwheight his will for freedom, and if he escaped the jail cell, he would just get captured again and stay there for longer, but if he takes the bread, he at least has something to eat and he wont have to stay there longer! so therefore, the man chose the bread because his will to eat outwheighted his will for freedom!

The bread was longer than the stick but it was closer