So I heard my friend call an invasive plant a displaced relative and when pressed on it they basically said that the plants didn’t choose to come here and they are victims of colonialism. Invasive implies they aren’t welcome, you wouldn’t say that the enslaved people brought over to the new world are invasive so why would you a plant? Then they said human agriculture was invasive because it’s monoculture and doesn’t allow other plants to grow, which you know fair point. So what’s the consensus is my friend an idiot or am I an idiot?
Edit: I just texted my friend, they said they got the concept from this book. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
But this is fundamentally a philosophical question, because it's a question about what we should (and do) value. Answers to questions like that can't be read off of nature in any kind of meaningful way. Once we have a good idea of what kind of world we want, then there might be clear facts of the matter about how best to bring that world about, but there's no experiment you can do that will tell you what you should value. Even experimental design is fundamentally value-laden.