What you call a root flaw (in your previous comment) I see as being neither root nor a flaw, but that is not interesting to me. If you take a plant out of the

What you call a root flaw (in your previous comment) I see as being neither root nor a flaw, but that is not interesting to me. If you take a plant out of the ground, and toss it into the sea, the plant dies. The 'root flaw' is that the plant is a vulnerable living being. The more relevant fact is that the plant is better off in the ground.