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Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[+] -10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

A town does not have the power to recognize new rights. Pretty fucking awful that they think a tree deserves the right to life, natural growth, integrity and regeneration, but cows, pigs, and chickens don't. A tree doesn't deserve a right to life, we deserve a right to trees.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Trees aren’t as self-righteous as you, that’s for certain.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Can you please describe your observations and perceptions that lead you to feel I'm being self-righteous? I think the call might be coming from inside the house, if you catch my drift.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    I find sayings like this and the other similar accusation of projection in this sort of context really funny because they’re basically the evolved form of the schoolyard retort: “no, you!”

    Strange how we’ve somehow come to assume that they actually hold any weight despite being functionally the exact same. I mean, even then it was dumb.

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