THORNY BEAUTY

I am interested in the THORNS as the bittersweet predicament of roses. I came across wild white roses today ... a weed in our roadside ditches... and was reminded how much I dislike plants with THORNS. Ironic that people present roses as a token of love (although florists declaw them first). I just read in the news that a local florist had an order for 1200 roses to fill for Hillary Clinton, each and every THORN removed.