Dilema #3

[Burning Sheep Productions]

You're renting an apartment with a fantastic view of the city and the river going through it and the bridges and all and it'd look just fantastic if it weren't for this ugly tree completely ruining the view.<br>You didn't pay all that money for a view of a tree, you're getting ripped off here!<br>You could ask them to remove it, but if they decline you're stuck with it.<br>Do you:^^

[simon]

Well since the tree's ugly, I'd ask them to remove it, but if they did decline I wouldn't really mind. Besides, I wouldn't pay money just for the view anyway.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

If an apartment has a really good view then it's gonna be bloody expensive.

[Elscire]

However it doesn't have a really good view because of the massive tree outside.<br><br>In any case, I would ask them politely to remove it, or to cut it back, if they declined then I would not be terribly bothered as while a view is nice, when I am at home I wouldn't be spending particularly much time looking out the window anyway.

[norsenerd]

Why am I the only one that says ingore it? What gives you the right to end a life just so you can have a bettr view?<br><br>Story: There was a guy removing a tree in my mothers neaighborhood. My step father was tryign to get at why he was having it removed. Asking questions like: "Is the tree ill?" "is it a danger to the house?" ect. The answer was alway no. So he asked "why are you having it removed?" and the a\nswer was "Oh, trees are bad."<br><br>Trees are bad?! <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>TREES ARE BAD?!?</span> what? trees arn't bad. They do so much for us. Read an arbor day panphlet sometime.<br><br>'Nother story: There was a plan to cleen up land nerar the hudson river and they found in an illegal dumping bundles of panhlets for saving the trees that were still tied together. Oh irony.

[MidnightRealism]

I'd leave it. Maybe some birds would show up and live there or something. That'd be nice.

[ShadOtterdan]

I'd just find a way to get up on the roof, the tree might not go up that high if it's an apartment, even if it did, the trees not too wide for me to move to a better location on said roof.

[Dr. Dos]

It's just a tree. Simple as that, it doesn't matter in the least.

[Zylo]

I've never cared about the view (at least not the view of a city).

[Ibon]

Hui-tse said to Chuang-tse, "I have a large tree which no carpenter can cut into lumber. Its branches and trunk are crooked and tough, covered with bumps and depressions. No builder would turn his head to look at it. Your teachings are the same - useless, without value. Therefore, no one pays attention to them."<br><br>"As you know," Chuang-tse replied, "a cat is very skilled at capturing its prey. Crouching low, it can leap in any direction, pursuing whatever it is after. But when its attention is focused on such things, it can be easily caught with a net. On the other hand, a huge yak is not easily caught or overcome. It stands like a stone, or a cloud in the sky. But for all its strength, it cannot catch a mouse."<br><br>"You complain that your tree is not valuable as lumber. But you could make use of the shade it provides, rest under its sheltering branches, and stroll beneath it, admiring its character and appearance. Since it would not be endangered by an axe, what could threaten its existence? It is useless to you only because you want to make it into something else and do not use it in its proper way."

[Henohenomoheji]

If the tree was so close that it was gonna come through the window...<br><br>I would get a big truck...<br><br>...and I would move it someplace else...<br><br>...prefferably someplace where it would grow and thrive...<br><br>...and someplace that would freak people out, or someplace REALLY out of place....<br><br>...but I wouldn't intentionally harm it.

[The_Sparrow_]

Meh, the tree was probably there first, I'd just ask them to cut it back.

[norsenerd]

But Ibon, you're forgeting: Trees are bad.

[Ibon]

Tree bad, fire pretty?

[NHJ BV]

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