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They do not "eat fungi corpses" you absolute buffoon. Plants absorb resulting nutrients from their decomposition.
I would be curious to know how easy you think abiogenesis is achieved.
It's not a cop-out, this is just you conceding.
...So they eat their corpses. Thanks for agreeing with me? What do you think the word 'decomposition' means?
It's apparently not / that / hard.
It's crazy we've gone from your position of plants don't destroy other life to maybe life doesn't exist so quickly.
Plants don't decompose fungi, they absorb already decomposed fungi. And I wouldn't say that the absorption of rotten fungi is "eating". Plants still need other life to survive, but there is much more of a symbiotic relationship, not this Nietzschean idea that you're proposing.
We certainly know that the building blocks of life are abundant like amino acids, but life itself isn't. Protocell formation is still hard, that's why we still have a hard time replicating it. So the amino acid consumed most likely wouldn't have become life. This was my point.
I said "this is just you conceding" in response to this, nothing to do with "life doesn't exist so quickly":