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Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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Both crimes involve permanent harm that cannot be repaired.
Just because you can't connect the two crimes in your head, doesn't mean someone else can't. Get out of your own head.
Sure, but he's not wrong. It's still bizarre and unnecessary. There's no need to generalize every freaking situation. It eventually waters down language IMO.
But in one case the victim is a person with feelings and in the other case it's a tree. I find it quite concerning that people seem to struggle to see the difference.
I find it concerning that you can't see the similarities between a crime that involves a person with feelings, and a crime that involves an entire community with feelings.
It shows your complete lack of knowledge of biology to assert that trees don't have "feelings". They may not experience them as we do, but there is way more research to be done before that can be definitively stated. With as much as we've learned about fungi associated with tree roots that help them communicate, as well as chemicals they release when damaged to warn other trees, I think it is safe to say that trees and other plants do indeed experience distress.
Rape is a crime in which one person acts heinously out of a desire for control over another person/creature, causing irreparable harm. There are various kinds of rape as well. Do you know, that in history, when one city was invaded by an army, that would be referred to as a rape of that city?
So yes, I think there is plenty of logic to hate both of those youths equally. Both committed atrocities against innocent parties that have resulted in extreme harm.