Would you cut down a Christmas tree if it started screaming in pain as you started cutting?

Freeze for a couple seconds, and then run away. I’m a REAL MAN

I’d probably start screaming too :P So no, I don’t think I would.

I’d tell myself
”Trees do not scream. This is something I know.”
and continue cutting.

That is, if I ever wanted to cut down a Christmas tree. I’d rather let the tree grow and buy a fake tree in the first place.

Probably not.

Is it going to die regardless? Did you cut too far that it won’t live anyway? Do we need to put it out of its misery?

oh my gosh. Hells no. Why even cut a tree down now? You can buy em almost anywhere. If a tree screams in the forest and I’m there to hear it. I would run like hell.

I don’t know. I need to find out what my response would be before I could tell you what it was (or would be).

I would hope I would be able to….pause…..and wonder how the hallucingenics were spiked into my tea that morning….

(...she types as she sits next to her fake tree…..)

@judochop: Cutting down the tree was the best part of having a Christmas tree. In Pleasant Hill they have tons of tree farms. You would hand the guy tens bucks and he would hand you a saw. Search for the perfect one and cut it down and drag it back to the truck.

Good times..

Now I am a hippie and have a fake tree.

Trees are meant to grow. I would not cut on it in the first place.
We do hurt them when we kill them.

i’d definitely think that i’m in the wizard of oz or in snow white or on an acid trip.

That depends. Do my vegetables also scream in pain when I chomp them? Does the grass howl when I walk on it? What about when I pick cherries or tomatoes? If everything is going to be vocal, I suppose I would get used to it, either that or go rigid and starve to death.

I would continue to cut, forcing myself to work through the hallucination—all the while screaming hysterically myself. Then I would get myself to a psych clinic.
Good thing I don’t cut trees down anyway and won’t have to worry about such a disturbing scenario.

Of course, not screaming hysterically would be better. But that’s just not very likely.

Walking over the screaming grass to get to the tree would probably put me off the whole idea before I reached the tree.

If the tree screams louder than my chainsaw and the ear plugs I wear when I use it then I will let the tree live and find a quieter one.

Wait, what would the screaming sound like? Sort of like the trees in Lord of the Rings? Or like a human?

I would give it anesthesia and cut REALLY fast.

@johnpowell: I see the nostalgia in it. But I view it much like hunting. If they sell it in your local store why hunt it down or uh, cut it down? I am guilty of both in the past and I guess I am a little bitof a hippymyself. No trees in my house unless they are planted. Now, the screaming trees: once upon a time, a very great band.

I couldn’t cut down a tree. I just don’t have it in me.

I’d call Treemasters.

Probably punch it and punch it till it stopped, then faint.

That might depend on what it was screaming.

just wait for the snow to fall