Ridiculous to take down a tree, in my opinion.
I've never really understood removing inanimate objects, whether they were houses, trees, or schools. I think it's kind of a fad.
And, it's changed from the way it was historically. MOO Look at locations of the Holocaust--like Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was the site of millions of murders. Instead of tearing it down, they turned it into a memorial.
Or like the Genbaku Dome at Hiroshima. They didn't repair it or tear it down. They left it to serve as a reminder. Or the Colosseum in Rome, which was the site of incredibly violent deaths.
Or, maybe, the most famous of them all - the crucifixion of Jesus, yet the popularity of wearing crosses as jewelry.
Somewhere along the line, the idea of "let this location/building/cross/whatever serve as a lesson" has morphed into "out of sight, out of mind."
But that's all MOO
