Say you accept the notion that houseplants are sub-human entities not even worthy of a name. Consider this: would you care if your houseplant died? It is the circle of life,** after all. Shit gets born, lives, withers, dies, etc. Seeds and stuff. Seasons in the sun. Metaphors and all that.
But even though your houseplant is an “it” and not a Bert or a Larry, it is a living thing. And like any other living thing, if your houseplant intends to die,*** it will do no good to try to talk it out of it.
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