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In reply to the discussion: Facts are difficult to come by in the Trayvon Martin Case, and [View all]MineralMan
(151,500 posts)Trees don't hate. They don't think, either. They reproduce, because that's how organisms continue. Trees use carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, because that's what trees, along with most other plants do. They evolved to do that. Carbon is important for life. Plants get it from carbon dioxide. Oxygen is less useful to plants, so it is dumped by the plants, and used by animals who require it, and which then emit carbon dioxide. Evolution happened to work that way, you see. There's no thinking or altruism involved. It's just how life works.
The sun isn't "kind." The sun is a star. It knows nothing, since it is not a sentient thing. It just is, and the laws of physics apply to it. Life just is. The universe just is. It doesn't have emotions or thoughts.
Anthropomorphizing nature is not useful in any way. Understanding it is useful. Humans can understand nature, to some degree. That's our survival mechanism.