Plants save our planet while humans are animals and destroy it. Therefore, they are superior to animals. Q.e.d.
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Can an animal create sugar from sunlight and carbon dioxide?
Can an animal live for hundreds of years while towering over everything else
Plants do communicate and form social bonds. (quick internet search : https://theconversation.com/plants-thrive-in-a-complex-world-by-communicating-sharing-resources-and-transforming-their-environments-156932)
Whoever downvoted this doesn't understand plants and their interactions at all.
In a world without plants nearly all animals die. In a world without animals some plants don't reproduce.
Animals are better at running, swimming, and playing piano.
Plants are better at blossoming and photosynthesis.
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Yup. Each is better at what it is good at. Neither is, strictly speaking, better than the other.
animals eat plants
plants were here first
who said plants can't communicate too?
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.
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