All living things irradiate natural energy (chi/ki/qi). Taking energies from their sources requires ethics with consent. Although irradiative energies being irradiated by living organisms like trees & people (etc) are energies being expelled by the sources meaning it isn’t needed by their hosts.

Irradiative energies could be used by a psychic vampire (extreme empath) to identify how others feel (to aid those in need) as part of the duties of psychic order. It is the only time when taking qi without consent isn’t wrong since it won’t harm the hosts & it’s practically being given away (it is practically being thrown away); especially with trees. People steal irradiative energy from trees every day, they just don’t realize it; it’s stealing oxygen that is being created by trees wich we breath (you’re not asking for it, you’re just breathing it in). It is technical & saying it as such influences “the righteous thief state of mind” wich is a base foundation to build “the enforcer state of mind”; teaching it spreads the influence.

Energy that is not irradiating is energy that is still within its hosts & then it is wrong to steal such energy (karma is a factor besides many others), etc.

[Note: empaths are capable of absorbing energetic & emotional signatures to know how others feel; a psychic vampire (in zherraxis definition) is an empath who has engorged meridians (a.k.a. siphoning channels) & went under extreme psychological/emotional stress wich is part of what engorged the meridians & caused psychic vampirism; psychic vampires absorb more energy than a basic empath resulting in an extreme empath (one could really know how others feel on a deep level)]