On Sunday, 28 October 2018 11:11:51 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
If you were a rare plant that had been growing in a garden for years, and
your roots were entwined around many others, Would you risk death of that
plant simply because you wanted it to be somewhere else?

Yes.
Isn't that why world war II started, with Germany entwinning their roots around poland france and most of Europe.