[bamboozled]

True story from me. I almost bought a house that was eaten severely by white ants.

The problem wasn’t the ants, it was the way the slab was formed which caused the slab to crack and the house was also built into the mud of a road side embankment. Due to this crap design the ants could access the wood and had access to water from the mud.

I assessed all of this and figured it wasn’t the ants fault, they were doing what they do, building nests and chomping wet wood.

Did I go and poison all the ants ? Nope. I just planned to fix the design move the wood they lived in off to the forrest nearby.

This was a conscious choice I made to not destroy the ants and benefit from a more robust design with less moisture problems in the house.

I just bought a house which the floor has been demolished by termites and I’ll do the same thing.

Imo with a bit of consideration, I think most of these coexistence problems can be worked out fairly simply.

[supertimor]

That was very kind of you, and I appreciate that you value life so much, no matter how small; but I’m going to say you are an extreme outlier.

Realistically, how many people would go to all that trouble to save an ant nest on land that they are building on? And that’s not mentioning how many ants probably died in the move or were left behind and died in the rebuilding of the foundation, even despite all the care you took.

[bamboozled]

I mean I think I'm a little different, but not completely unheard of. I'm sure if you gave people the option , the time and money, they'd do something similar.

And that’s not mentioning how many ants probably died in the move or were left behind and died in the rebuilding of the foundation, even despite all the care you took.

I don't know but I know enough to know that moving the food source away, removes the ant's, they'll go elsewhere to find food. Now imagine what having an IQ of 5000 and almost unlimited time..."The AI".