Thread: There has to be an answer

Ok so.. Im sure this thread wont last long, mostly because i doubt i can express my question here as clear as it seems in my head.. but lets see ..

Is there any single living creature on earth that is completely pointless?
I am at work so i have lots of daydreaming and pointless thinking time.. so i have been eliminating options in my head since about.. five minutes after i arrived ( watch out for the "ive been fired"thread later) and my mind naturally jumped to the creatures i dislike most.. spiders- eat flys, flys-feed frogs, fleas- keep vets wealthy, germs-keep whole industrys alive. I guess you could argue that most creatures COULD be eaten, but not all of those would count as im not looking for what could be eaten, rather what is frequently eaten. like im sure you could eat a lemurs balls but unless there is evidence that something does, i wouldnt count that.
There has to be something completely pointless, which isnt eaten, making people money, contributing anything to the world.
any suggestions?

Interesting thoughts. I think everything that exists has a purpose or it would have been weeded out by nature by now. Though I don't think 'making humans money' is a valid enough reason for something to exist. There has to be more to it. Most things have existed and had a purpose long before our tiny little fraction of advanced human history.

Originally Posted by marlie

germs-keep whole industrys alive.

Germs and bacteria are really the most prosperous creatures on the planet, outnumbering the number of humans on it multiple times, and we are all alive at their mercy. Bacteria keeps us healthy, but can also make a sick. If bacteria was ever advanced enough to decide to get rid of us, we'd all be dead, just like that.

So yeah, I think they're kind of important. The purpose of something doesn't revolve around us anyway.

Pandas

Yep Pandas lol, they should be dead by now. Maybe they helped stop the bamboo from growing everywhere, but we do a good enough job of that now so....

BTW your reasons for the things you mentioned sucked. DeeryTheDeer's post explains why.

Sloths, humans.

Depends what your definition of pointful and pointless is.

Originally Posted by tommo

Yep Pandas lol, they should be dead by now. Maybe they helped stop the bamboo from growing everywhere, but we do a good enough job of that now so....

BTW your reasons for the things you mentioned sucked. DeeryTheDeer's post explains why.

Sloths, humans.

I dont know much about sloths, but you could have the answer with humans, we do more harm than good to the earth, really i am looking at it from the planets point of view.. rather than a human one... if thats possible.. i dunno.. its a slow day at work.. and as i suspected i couldnt quite put into words what was in my head lol.
Depends what your definition of pointful and pointless is.

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Originally Posted by marlie

There has to be something completely pointless, which isnt eaten, making people money, contributing anything to the world.
any suggestions?

Very anthropocentric view of the world there.

Something's pointless if it doesn't have a use by humans huh?

Really Marlie, really? Can you not yourself reflect and see how silly this is?

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Very anthropocentric view of the world there.

Something's pointless if it doesn't have a use by humans huh?

Eaten could mean eaten by anything- not neccesarily a human, contributing to the earth could mean.. polination. Its only human based in your mind, not mine.

Really Marlie, really? Can you not yourself reflect and see how silly this is?
Its not silly to discuss things that arent of interest to YOU.. its an open forum... dont like my thread, please skip past it.

sigh

Pandas may exist for our amusement. Our amusement exists for? Then that which exists for our amusement exists for? Ad infinitum.

Reasons are illogical on an objective scale.

Originally Posted by marlie

sigh

you heavily implied that it was use by humans, that's why all the other posts have independently recognised that.



also it doesn't matter if it's of interest to me, i was pointing it out because i think you're wrong in how you think.

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Pandas

Ditto.