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Why do we believe we’re more special than creepy crawly bugs?

creepy crawlies have creepy bug rights too, no?

mowing the grass is no more murder than cutting your hair...

-Imp

Impenitent wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 9:55 am mowing the grass is no more murder than cutting your hair...

-Imp

That's also murder. And torture. It has been scientifically proven that hair screams in agony when it's cut.

The protesting screams of hair and grass are caused by ... Touching a Nerve, that causes the reaction, which keeps scientists busy even now spending fat government grants creating conditions for more grants.

a) The question was about KILLING, not causing pain, so those responses irrelevant.

b) Cutting YOU in half is killing you. Cutting a planaria in half is not (possibly they had you do this in HS Biology to see what would happen)

c) Grasses are evolved to be tolerant of frequent grazing. This is important for them to be able to persist in areas where there is enough rain fall to support herbaceous plants/trees. The grasses survive heavy grazing better than those do, so grazing keeps the area in grass. Here in New England you can see what happens to abandoned pasture or hay field. Shrubs and trees take over. Most of the forested land around me was open 100+ years ago.

Bees and spiders splattered to pieces by rotor blades operated by people knowingly killing life forms in the field of dreams. Beyond the dream nothing was born so nothing can die.

MikeNovack wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 4:30 pm a) The question was about KILLING, not causing pain, so those responses irrelevant.

Gotta say, the bit that gets cut off the end of the blade of grass looks dead to me.

We should consider whether cutting your hair is murder next, just look at all those decapitated little hairlets, cut down in their prime, waiting to be sucked into the Dyson V15 Detect Absolute of emptiness.

People often say they like the smell of fresh-cut grass, but the smell is a chemical distress signal sent out to warn other vegetation. What science has lately discovered about the green world is amazing. If you're interested, pick up a book called "BRILLIANT GREEN." Consciousness is all around us.

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 5:18 pm People often say they like the smell of fresh-cut grass, but the smell is a chemical distress signal sent out to warn other vegetation. What science has lately discovered about the green world is amazing. If you're interested, pick up a book called "BRILLIANT GREEN." Consciousness is all around us.

not to be confused with SOYLENT GREEN...

save the planet!!

-Imp

Impenitent wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 6:11 pm

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 5:18 pm
People often say they like the smell of fresh-cut grass, but the smell is a chemical distress signal sent out to warn other vegetation. What science has lately discovered about the green world is amazing. If you're interested, pick up a book called "BRILLIANT GREEN." Consciousness is all around us.

not to be confused with SOYLENT GREEN...

Save the planet!! -Imp

SOYLENT GREEN TASTY STUFF---LOL!!

Impenitent wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 6:11 pm

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 5:18 pm People often say they like the smell of fresh-cut grass, but the smell is a chemical distress signal sent out to warn other vegetation. What science has lately discovered about the green world is amazing. If you're interested, pick up a book called "BRILLIANT GREEN." Consciousness is all around us.

not to be confused with SOYLENT GREEN...
-Imp

Also not to be confused with phosgene! If you smell "new mown hay" in a place that not possible, get away FAST! Phosgene (COCl2) was one of the WW I poison gasses.

MikeNovack wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:49 pm

Impenitent wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 6:11 pm

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 5:18 pm People often say they like the smell of fresh-cut grass, but the smell is a chemical distress signal sent out to warn other vegetation. What science has lately discovered about the green world is amazing. If you're interested, pick up a book called "BRILLIANT GREEN." Consciousness is all around us.

not to be confused with SOYLENT GREEN...
-Imp

Also not to be confused with phosgene! If you smell "new mown hay" in a place that not possible, get away FAST! Phosgene (COCl2) was one of the WW I poison gasses.

Is this stuff also produced as a distress signal by the cut hay? Well, why the hay not?

The moon was a ghostly galleon, framing the dark spires of a black castle. Surrounding the castle was an extensive lawn, green, but shaggy, as the grass was many inches high and had not been mowed in months.

From the castle dungeon, bedecked with chains, a prisoner was dragged. He blinked and stumbled, already weakened from lack of food and water, and from months in the solitary confinement of a damp, freezing cell.

"You will mow the lawn until it is completely mown," said the chief guard. "Only then will you be given food and water."

The prisoner could barely stand, so weak was he. But he feebly grasped the lawn mower, and began to mow in geometrically even circles. But he was too weak. He had completed less than a quarter of his assignment when, overcome by the heat and lack of water, he fell to the ground.

"He is quite dead," said the chief guard.

Yes, mowing the grass can be murder.