Why there are no Pointers in JAVA??

In an interview a candidate was asked the question "Why We dont Have pointers in JAVA?", to which he replied like this:
" I married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father, who visited us quite often, fell in love with my step daughter and married
her. Hence, my father became my son-in-law, and my step-daughter became my mother. Some months later, my wife gave birth to a son, who
became the brother in law of my father as well as my uncle. "

" The wife of my father, that is my step daughter, also had a son. Thereby, i got a brother and at the same time a grandson. My wife is
my grandmother, since she is my mother's mother. Hence, i am my wife's husband and at the same time her step-grandson; in other words, i am
my own grandfather. "

" I guess that's why we don't have pointer in Java..."