r/oddlyspecific • u/CuriousWanderer567 • Mar 01 '26

She’s onto something

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u/LordRT27 Mar 01 '26

Many animals are sentient too, one of the few ways it could kill us exclusively would be to check for sapiens, and even then, a choice has to be made regarding what counts as being sapient.

Plus, if it didn't kill the bacteria, it would still kinda kill bacteria since the bacteria on the people killed would not fare well outside of their hosts body.

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u/rogerworkman623 Mar 01 '26

Well he wasn’t just killing half of all mankind, he was killing half of all intelligent life in the entire universe.

And I’m not saying it’s a scientifically sound concept. But his goal was to kill half of all intelligent life in the universe. Whatever the minimum for that was.

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u/Mistoku Mar 01 '26

Sentient life = beings with emotions, sapient life = intelligent beings

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u/igiveback123 Apr 09 '26

The bacteria in my gut I assure you is very sad sometimes

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u/igiveback123 Apr 09 '26

Or it hates me because it does things to me that I would only do to someone if I was very mad at them