This story illuminates an important lesson: What is bad is relative. While some people might consider something like a dandelion to be a “noxious weed,” others might find it to be beautiful.
Sure, there are things that are morally, ethically, and legally wrong—undisputibly. However, when it comes to values like “This is what your lawn should look like,” everything becomes relative. As with anything else that is up to our own preference and self-determination, as long as you’re not harming anyone else or infringing on their own enjoyment of things, you should be able to do as you please.
It’s like the countless stories globally of humans eradicating local populations of predators because they were seen as being “bad” for preying on livestock. At that point in history, there was little consideration, care, or understanding of what effect we were having on the local ecosystem and how destabilizing the delicate balance of local predator populations would have knock-on effects.
Now we know better, but I guess not really, not a whole lot else has changed.
