Paul made the comment that this "sounds almost Biblical in its
wrongness." Well. . .
Deuteronomy 20
19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by
forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou
shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life)
to employ them in the siege:
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for
fruit, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build
bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be
subdued.
Actually, the Bible specifically forbids this particular wrongness.
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