If your neighbor's tree has a root onto your property are you allowed to inject that root with poison?

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• "Trees provide too many benefits to be so thoughtlessly destroyed." <== I can't name any meaningful ones.

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  by malevolentbutticklis on November 3rd, 2009

• If you can't, then you're just not trying.
  Provide shade, provide shelter for animals and birds; provide inspiration to the creative ("I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree ....." (Joyce Kilmer); help purify our atmosphere; provide building materials; provide materiel for mulch; provide ..... well, even you should be capable of getting the idea.
  Do your neighbor ..... and yourself ..... a favor and back off. You're not proving apoint; you are proving your silliness.

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  by Anonymous on November 4th, 2009

• Not trying? Let's actually examine how silly the benefits are that you report.
  a) "provide inspiration to the creative ("I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree ....." (Joyce Kilmer);" <== Tree-based though process is based on the placebo effect at best. I have never needed a tree for inspiration and I do not believe it could provide me any.
  b) "provide shelter for animals and birds" <== I do not need or want pet tree rats. As a taxpayer I have an extensive collection of birds and animals. The zookeepers look after them and any time I want I can go visit them for free.
  c) "help purify our atmosphere;" <== all the CO2 a tree absorbs is given back off when it rots
  d) "provide building materials; " <== these come from forests managed for timber production ... not from a spurrous tree in someone's front yard
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  and so on and so forth

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  by malevolentbutticklis on November 4th, 2009