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RosaReborn wrote

Reply to comment by kore in Please eat your veggies by NAB

Lol what? Plants do produce enzymes and a multitude of other defense mechanisms to keep themselves from being eaten. Fruits on the other hand or specifically sweetened with the intent to be eaten. I am not trying to speculate about what plants feel or care about. I can also only speculate about what any living creature thinks or feels, from animals to fungi to other humans.

but did not evolve to run away

That's not how evolution works

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kore wrote (edited )

I'm just trying to point out that words like "caring" and "feeling" and now "thinking" and "intending" as you have just used in this comment are metaphors we use as humans to understand what plants are doing and do not offer anything productive for this discussion. When you use a word like "intend" to describe the sweetness of fruits, you are suggesting agency on the part of the plant. In the words of a wise person, "that's not how evolution works"

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RosaReborn wrote

Lol that is a very fair point! Ascribing human feelings or intentions or intelligence to other beings is inaccurate

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