Comment by ssl-3
2 months ago
I, for one, would be on-board with erasing coconut trees from the planet.
Why, one might ask?
Well, simple: Nobody really needs them, do they? And I, for one, don't enjoy the flavor of a coconut: I find that the taste lingers in my mouth in ways that others do not, such that it becomes a distraction to me inside of my little pea brain.
I find them to be ridiculously easy to detect in any dish, snack, or meal. My taste buds would be happier in a world where there were no coconuts to bother with.
Besides: The trees kill about 150 people every year.
(But then: While I'd actually be pretty fine with the elimination of the coconut, I also recognize that I live in a society with others who really do enjoy and find purpose with that particular fruit. So while it's certainly within my wheelhouse to dismiss it completely from my own existence, it's also really not my duty at all to tell others whether or not they're permitted to benefit in some way from one of those deadly blood coconuts.
I mean: It's just a coconut.)
Also it's a living organism in it's own right and other non-humans make use of it, like coconut crabs. Nature doesn't exist just for us. Humans kill a lot more coconut trees (or sharks) than they kill us.
Don't care.
It's not useful to me. It can go away.
(Yes, this may mean that I am short-sighted. I'm allowed to be as short-sighted as anyone else is.)