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Do you?

Yes 8 44.44%
 
No 5 27.78%
 
Depends on the bug 5 27.78%
 
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Whenever I walk home from school, I always catch myself scanning the immediate area in front of me, watching out for any insects that may jump out of the grass. With each and every individual step, I pay close attention to the exact spot I expect my foot to land to make sure it's safe for any creature. Almost every day, I catch myself doing a high-speed dodge as some cricket leaps out of the grass. 

For some strange reason, I can't stand killing things. No matter what the thing is. Ants, Spiders, Crickets, Rollie Pollies, Cockroaches, flies, bees, etc. I guess it's because I feel sorry for the little bugs. They're just living their life. They're not trying to be intentionally annoying. They don't even have the cognitive capacity for such planning. They're walking aroud, looking for food, looking for a mate, just acting purely off instinct. They don't mean nobody no harm. 

I didn't always feel like this. Just a few years ago, I wouldn't think twice about swatting a spider if it dared to crawl across my floor. There was no hesitation, no thought, just a swat. I don't know what happened to me. I just can't do it anymore. Even, if it's something as insignificant as a fly, I just can't do it. I know the fly barely has a brain.  I know it has only posses the most rudamentary definition of a brain. It has no family at home. It has no dreams and aspirations. But it does have life. And I'd just feel very bad if I were to take that away from it.

I'm not scared of bugs or anything like that. In fact, I find them quite fascinating. Sometimes, if I'm at the bus stop, I might let a bug crawl on my finger just to look at it. (if I'm alone of course). So I know I don't have any phobias of them. The mere thought of a lifeform being slaughtered under my own force makes me cringe. I guess I just hate to cause them pain. This applies to humans as well. If I cause anything or person pain, then I feel pain too. In this world, that's probably more of a weakness than a strength though. 

I don't I know anyone else like this. Whenever a friend sees a spider wondering about, he leaps at the oppurtunity to take it out. Some of them even looked thrilled to kill it. As if it's some kind of game or something. They usually leave a big smile after they kill it, glancing at the corpse with a disgusted look, as if they they just contributed to cleaning the Earth. That's sick behavior in book. I wonder if I'm alone in my way of thinking. Does anyone else feel like this?



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not going to lie didn't read your post as its kind of long and i'm lazy.

I feel bad when I have to kill any animal, even bugs and insects. So I have a basic rule as long as they don't bother me or my stuff I dont kill them. Ants seem to be the worst. They get in my house, my garden, every where.



thranx said:
not going to lie didn't read your post as its kind of long and i'm lazy.

I feel bad when I have to kill any animal, even bugs and insects. So I have a basic rule as long as they don't bother me or my stuff I dont kill them. Ants seem to be the worst. They get in my house, my garden, every where.


Don't worry. It's 90% filler anyway tbh.



This is something very complicated... i could write a book,it has to do with society, and the superiority complex that most humans have, but to make the long story short in my opinion if someone considers a bug's (or any living being) life ''meaningless'' then a human's life should be no different for you, but people is so fucked up man... sometimes it's just scary what they value, and how they compare and/or relate some things, i don't want to start a rant because i'm not going to stop so this is it. All of that becomes 100x worse if such person is religious.



If they are common or annoying insects I usually don't mind killing them. I personally never kill spiders because I think they're cool. Funny that you make this thread and mention bugs. There was an annoying cricket where I work -driving me insane for a good week. When I took out the garbage a week later (a couple days ago) there the cricket was, under the trash can in the corner of the store... I never felt so much joy killing an insect.

I've also killed a fair share of lab mice. It was shitty at first but then you get used to it. It was for science after all.



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson

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Busted said:

All of that becomes 100x worse if such person is religious.


wait... WHAT!?!?

elaborate PLEASE



hatmoza said:

I've also killed a fair share of lab mice. It was shitty at first but then you get used to it. It was for science after all.

How did you kill them? Please don't tell me via squashing...



I used to go out of my way to kill some kinds of bigs. Then I did a Nuzlocke run of Pokemon HeartGold. I dunno, playing that game just showed how fragile life was, even if it was all virtual. Usually, when I have to deal with bugs and whatnot nowadays, I do my best not to cause harm.



Love and tolerate.

Jay520 said:

Busted said:

All of that becomes 100x worse if such person is religious.


wait... WHAT!?!?

elaborate PLEASE

Oh man... i could but please don't make me do it...just

--Thou shall not kill.



Busted said:
This is something very complicated... i could write a book,it has to do with society, and the superiority complex that most humans have, but to make the long story short in my opinion if someone considers a bug's (or any living being) life ''meaningless'' then a human's life should be no different for you, but people is so fucked up man... sometimes it's just scary what they value, and how they compare and/or relate some things, i don't want to start a rant because i'm not going to stop so this is it. All of that becomes 100x worse if such person is religious.


I disagree. Killing other organisms doesn't automatically mean we think their life is meaningless. Killing other organisms is an evil necessary in my opinion.In the name of learning anyway.

You say "any living thing" ... really? I work in a lab 4 days a week growing, burning staining bacteria, ultimately killing them in the end? Does that make me a bad person? Like I said in a previous  post. Colleges and I killed countless lab mice... by cervical  dislocation - detaching the spine from the brain. Does that make me a bad person? I can tell you one thing though. I don't think their lives were meaningless. 

 

The real world's a scary thing.



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson