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Position:Home>Philosophy> If trees could scream, would we be so eager to cut them down?Question: If trees could scream, would we be so eager to cut them down!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Ever boiled a lobster alive!? They make the saddest sound, yet you don't see people feeling bad for them!. So I'd say yes- seems human nature to ignore the disturbing, as long as we benefit!. Let me tell you though!.!.!. there would be people who cared!. And question the morality of it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yeah but at the end of the day we need paper, houses, wood for so much things!. People say don't kill trees but when we run out of everything then we need to kill them!. I'm pretty against killing tree because we're running out of oxygen and little animals are getting killed on the roads!. Well, let me ask you this If animal screams would we be so eager to kill them and turn them in to meat!? Oh wait, animals do scream!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I do not think so!. Think about the murder victims!.!. I am sure that they'd scream the hell out of their lungs before they were killed (excused the term) but the humans still "cut them down" without any reason at all!. Taking this into view, people will still cut down the trees even if they scream because people need the trees for a lot of things like raw materials for papers, tires, soap and other necessities!. There is no difference isn't it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com humans kill other things that scream every single day!. all those animal rights documentaries that came out about those places where they kill cows didnt stop us from killing them any less as far as i know!. we heard them scream, and panic before hitting the grinder, but no, we still keep doing it!. i dont c how trees would be any diffrentWww@QuestionHome@Com Wasn't this a legendary creature that did such!. Cut it down and it could kill you with it's shrill screams!. Then again!. Each tree that's cut down release what it's stored!. :( So, a balance has to be met!. So Trees can save life!. It may kill too, in it's own way!. Greenhouse effect, etc,etc, & etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It wouldn't make much of a difference!. We've got to eat what we eat!. Right!? Don't we still cut screaming objects!.!.!.be it for food or sadistic pleasures or lofty patriotic reasons!? After sometime we will condition ourselves to turn a deaf ear to their screams anyways! Sounds cruel!? Meant to be!!! P!.S!. But I would sure like to hug trees, if that makes them laugh!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com if a tree screemed would we even be capable of hearing it!? who says theese screams would be pain!. cutting down a tree could produce orgasmic screems!. have you cut down a tree!? i haven't!. maybe they do screem and nobody told us!. if water screemed would you still drink it!? what about lobsters i heard they scream at very high freqs, and we still cook em!.!.!.!.aliveWww@QuestionHome@Com Probably not - what if carrots, potatoes, lettuce screamed!? What if corn, beans, and berry bushes cried when we pull off their fruits!? What if babies screamed when they were being aborted!?Www@QuestionHome@Com No, definitely not!. Maybe the trees would be tranquilized then chopped down or euthanized!.Www@QuestionHome@Com If trees could scream i dont think people would cut them down, people are cutting thousands down every week and we would all have ear ache :) xWww@QuestionHome@Com yes, but we would sedate/put them to sleep first with drugs, because to scream they would have to have an internal organ system like lungsWww@QuestionHome@Com babies scream have a heart beat hiccup and much more but libs say its OK to abort them!.!. before you give me thumbs down or report this think about it!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.hardWww@QuestionHome@Com trees do scream!. most people just don't hear it; they tune it out!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I wouldnt cut them down even if they had gold in their centers!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!. no way, i have cut-down-trees-phobia :pWww@QuestionHome@Com If they did any vocals their bark would be scarier than their bite!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Probably not!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com watch FerngullyWww@QuestionHome@Com yes we would, animals scream when they are killed but we still do itWww@QuestionHome@Com If you're a sadist, then maybe!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com good pointWww@QuestionHome@Com yes, they'd be scary lolWww@QuestionHome@Com no!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com i don think soWww@QuestionHome@Com |