Do ants know the difference between love and lust, or is that just something you see on television?

They know and ignore the truth. It is something you see on television. That doesn’t mean it is not something that could be seen in real life. The purpose of putting it on television is to bug people.

Ants do not even know they are ants. What are you talking about?

I don’t think ants have such cognitive ability. Most of their life’s about being instinctual. But I believe they can feel it when they’re stimulated during sex intercourse.

I’m pretty darned sure I know the difference. TV does a “happily ever after” fade out after the lust factor is met while building you, the viewer on the journey to get there. I asked something along these lines a while back about what happens after a “Cape Fear” type trauma and the screen fades on the happy resolution… yeah. But what happened after that?

The couple finally gets their moment in the lustful spotlight. Did they argue about bills later? Did they go for couples therapy? Did they get crushes on each others’ friends?

Working through those things is love.

I loved reading available questions from the bottom up. I get a question about ants, then a question about love and lust, and then this beautiful combination of the best of both of the other questions! My answer is a resounding “yes.”

@Kayak8 Yay, someone got my joke ;)

Since I don’t watch television, you can consider me to be an unbiased observer. Also, I don’t observe ants, so I am doubly unbiased.

The orange tree tells me that half the ants believe in lust and the other half believe in love, but none of it matters because virtually none of them ever have relationships. Nor do they have sex, for that matter.

@FutureMemory And I am sorry that I didn’t also mention the very relevant TV question that started the whole thing!

Believe it or not, not everything on TV is true.