Are tree's alive and if so are we murderers?

The latin name for murder is unlawful homicide --- meaning unlawful killing of a human being. If you kill a tree you have committed either a (1) lawful or (2) unlawful "phytocide" [plant killing].

Trees are most certainly alive --- provided that they are still doing the biological operations of living plants (After all there are such things as dead trees which have been killed by insects or fires or were blown down, etc. etc.).

Your reasoning is faulty and your conclusion is false, For example when doctors cut out living cancers or irradiate living cancer tumors (in order to kill the living tumors) or prescribe antibiotics which kill living bacterial pathogens [living disease causing bacterial organisms], do we call them "murderers" or "healers of disease", despite the certain fact that they kill both living organisms (living bacteria from outside ourselves) and also kill certain parts of ourselves [living tumors]???

In sum trees, tumors and disease causing organisms are all alive. But people who kill any of these things are NOT murderers (committers of unlawful homicide).

Kevin

Yes tree's are alive. So are other plants, cows, chickens, pretty much everything on the planet is alive. But murder is defined by law, as the premeditated killing of one human being by another. One human being by another. Cutting down a tree isn't murder. Unless that tree was actually a human. In which case, yes that's murder and you also need glasses for confusing a tree with a human.

We have terminated our connection and anyone else's connection to that tree. The tree isn't another member of our species, but we have connections to plants and animals that we depend on, so violations of these connections are not insignificant, and need to be judged in their full context. Did removing the tree provide housing, fuel, or profit for someone? Is the tree replaceable? Threes are carbon sinks, so if another doesn't grow back, was the loss of carbon equilibrium worth the value of the removal? A tree is a record of history; it has tree rings, which vary in size and density: To what extent are we destroying history?

Although typically the definition of "murderer" does not include foliage, if you desire it to, then so be it. So now all that cut down trees are murderers. Happy ? Oh, and certainly trees are alive. Obviously alive in different terms them humans but also certainly alive.

All things have a life. So in the literal sense to which you refer,... then yes we are murderers!

Our body produces many bits and pieces that are designed to kill other things to keep us healthy. These are totally independent events that we have no control or awareness of. Should we call these life savers "Murderers". I think not. If we as a species, cognizant of the death we unleash by living are offended by such then there is but one solution. Extinction. Remember though that by the very fact of living, the trees depend upon the death of so many other creatures for their own life. The sustenance that sustains them is dependent upon the deaths of others. Its how things are. Almost everything upon the Earth is equally as guilty of murder. The solution? The total destruction of the planet.

Tress are living things. There might be a distinction made between the killing of a thinking thing, and the killing of a thing that grows, and metabolizes. Would you consider the eating of a fruit murder? Personally, I don't think of it under that definition.

In life humans have always been murders. Everyday life sacrifices itself so that others might live, or it might be thought that other life is taken by the strength of one surpassing another. In this way the weakness of others, can be something that strengthens the self, or visa versa.

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Murder applies to humans only. Trees are natural a resource we use. It is no different from hunting animals for food. Even indigenous people did these things.

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Trees are plants and are most certainly living organisms. However, 'murder' is a term restricted to the killing another human being, not just any organism.

We cut down cows, chickens, geese and pigs every single day - why don't you consider this murder?

And I don't think trees fall under the category "living organisms".