Smart Answers To Stupid Questions

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Is there an explanation for why it is so?

 

There would've been one, but the vogons killed the thing figuring it out.


Why do I procrastinate?

 

Perhaps you are anxious by the many goals in front of you and hard aftaid to tackle them. Perhaps your just bored and just want to do something interesting but don't find work interesting. Perhaps you just have different priorities. There is no real answer to this question.

 

Why didn't you ask a question?

 

Because I don't have a question to ask.

What does the color green look like?

 

It is hard to say, as we cannot see what another human sees. What I may perceive as the color "green", you may not. We do not know if our minds perception the specific spectrum of photon frequencies that we often call "green" coincide or not. We can only guess and assume.

What is meaning?

 

Meaninf defines something. It is the purpose behind a noun's existence.

 

When will you find a question to ask?

 

Never

 

Guess I'm asking then:

Why do cats always fall feet first?

 

Because they are secretly the superior race


Am I insane?

 

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Do I have a question?

 

You most definitely have, as I wouldn't be answering it otherwise.

Are fruits alive when you eat them?

 

It depends on the fruit or vegetable, and what you define as "alive" for a plant.

Some vegetables, like potatoes and other root veggies, are definitely alive. Plant them and they will grow into a full plant. Most of these plants (carrots, onions, garlic) are biannual. They grow from seed for a year, store resources underground, then grow again a second year before going to seed and dying.

Others, less so. Celery, for example, is the stalk of a plant, and as far as I know wont grow... But given a flow of water, the cells will continue to function for a while (like cut flowers). Here things get murky, since plants don't have a nervous system like animals. If you kill an animal, most cells stop functioning pretty quickly because there is no brain telling them what to do anymore. But plant cells are more independent, and so will continue trying to do their job. But the plant is basically doomed.

Finally, fruits, which should include any veggie that has seeds (peppers, for example). Here, the fruit is essentially dead tissue, though again it continues to function until it runs out of water/energy. (Which is why fruit will continue to ripen once picked.) But the seeds are 100% alive, usually, and could be planted and become new plants.

(yes, I copy-pasted this from reddit)


Is transgenderism a mental illness?

 

no cuz illnesses are only spread by viruses lol

why do vegans complain about how meat eaters kill innocent animals for food when vegans kill innocent plants for food lol?

 

Firstly and most obviously, it’s important to address the science behind this. A plant lacks a central nervous system, pain receptors and a brain which means that anatomically they don’t have the ability to feel pain.

If we also consider that the primary reason human and non-human animals feel pain is to alert us that we are in danger or are being hurt and that we need to escape the situation that we are in, a plant cannot move and thus any pain would be inescapable, making life torturous for any plant.

Which begs the question, why would plants ever evolve such a horribly debilitating and destructive characteristic, as it goes against the fundamental purpose of evolution?

If we now view the “plants feel pain argument” from a creationist point of view, why would a benevolent and compassionate God give such a horrible curse to plants? Why would he allow them to suffer so terribly, if it served no purpose for their survival?

I think part of where the confusion regarding plants and pain comes from is that it is true that they are alive and they conduct various activities at a cellular level, such as tilting to face the sunlight. In fact, plants are capable of doing some truly amazing things, but they do not conduct any activities at a conscious or cognitive level, in essence meaning that plants are not sentient.

A Venus fly trap shuts itself on to a fly, not because it is consciously aware that a fly has landed onto it, but because it reacts to the pressure stimuli caused when the fly lands onto it. This is why the Venus flytrap will close around anything that triggers this response, including cigarettes butts.

A cow on the other hand, won’t eat cigarette butts just because someone puts them in their mouth because a cow consciously responds.

If we move past the science of whether or not plants feel pain and concentrate on the ethics of the excuse, I am doubtful that anyone truly believes that dropping a cauliflower into boiling water and boiling chickens alive (something that often happens in the chicken slaughtering process) is the same thing. Nobody thinks that slicing the neck of a cow is similar to cutting the stems off a broccoli, or castrating a pig is similar to peeling a potato.

But say the person you are talking to is determined that plants feel pain like animals do - it takes up to 16 kilograms of plants to create 1 kilogram of animal flesh, meaning vastly more plants are killed in the production of animal products than they are vegan products.

On top of this it’s important to note that up to 91% of Amazon rainforest destruction is due to animal agriculture, meaning that millions of trees have been and continue to be destroyed because of our consumption of animal products.

If you were driving down the road and a dog jumped out in front of your car, would you swerve onto a bed of flowers to avoid hitting the dog?
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I'm actually surprised that I was able to find this online. >.>

Does jpresent have a crush on anyone?
@_Tiger

 

Yes, because trampling flowers means less pollen which means less food for bees which means less bees which means less food. You single-handedly destroyed the produce supply, you asshole.


Why did it take so long for someone to answer me about if transgenderism is a mental illness?

 

Because people (and me) don't know the definition of certain words (illness) and as such, cannot respond.

Did you guys see the edit? >.>

 

Yes, and the answer to it is:

Yes, he has a crush on a humanoid deer that spells “dear” as “deer” and is supposedly his assisstant.


Why didn’t you look up what those words meant so you could answer it?

 

The person, me, happens to be in a state of slothfulness, where they are unwilling to do anything at the current moment in time, nor any other moments of time.
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I'm lazy.

Did I tag Tiger correctly? >.>