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Animals are awesome! They can communicate and form social bonds, while plants are just, well, plants. Animals can move, hunt, and play, making them more dynamic and interesting than plants that just sit there. Sure, plants are cool and provide us with oxygen, but animals are just on another level. If you ask me, animals are definitely better than plants!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Plants save our planet while humans are animals and destroy it. Therefore, they are superior to animals. Q.e.d.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Whoever downvoted this doesn't understand plants and their interactions at all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can an animal create sugar from sunlight and carbon dioxide?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Can an animal live for hundreds of years while towering over everything else

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

In a world without plants nearly all animals die. In a world without animals some plants don't reproduce.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Animals are better at running, swimming, and playing piano.

Plants are better at blossoming and photosynthesis.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

A lichen-covered sloth has entered the chat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yup. Each is better at what it is good at. Neither is, strictly speaking, better than the other.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

animals eat plants

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No. Plants are better than animals because they suffer less. Plants experience less physical pain. Plants have less thoughts and consciousness, both of which cause more suffering than simply physical pain.

Also, plants cause less harm to others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

plants were here first

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

who said plants can't communicate too?

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