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Common mistake, but plants are not moral subjects. If you harm any animal, even an insect, it will respond in ways that you or I would; fleeing, retaliating, or generally just panicking. I think you already understand that plants do not (although they do have biochemical adaptations to sense and respond to stress).
While plants don't possess some of the superior organs of animals, we're constantly being surprised by how much they actually sense and communicate. I wouldn't discount the similarities between the two kingdoms as being lesser than their differences just yet.
Ants only "have biochemical adaptation to sense and respond to stress".