Kill 'em. I don't take too kindly to surreptitious listening devices, unless I'm the one who planted them.
Killing bugs - is it wrong?
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If they're outside then fine.If they come into my house I'll kill flies and wasps without a second thought.Other types I'll generally try to catch and put outside
Yeah I'm pretty sure most guys tormented bugs at some point in their childhood. Now I pretty much only kill parasites and bloodusckers. Caught a tick on my cat at one point, was thouroughly freaked out and spent a good few minutes crushing the ever loving crap out of it. Those things are disgusting.
If they come near me they are dead, if a spider comes near me it won't be near me for long, I'll be 5 miles away. I never kill bugs for fun, except for that time I was in my garden with a paintball gun, shooting slugs, that was fun. It would blow them in half, and then a black thing would float out of their body.
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To tell the truth I'm the same way. Bugs aren't trying to do anything to me, they are just trying to live out their tiny bug lives. I feel like I could only kill things that are actively trying to do me harm without feeling guilty about it.
1) I do not think it wrong to bring wrath down upon the insects.
2) I suppose if you would require justification to kill pests, hornet nests and silkworms would be the easiest to justify.
3) Not at all. Have you seen the millipedes? Seriously, they get to die for being so damned frightening.
2) I suppose if you would require justification to kill pests, hornet nests and silkworms would be the easiest to justify.
3) Not at all. Have you seen the millipedes? Seriously, they get to die for being so damned frightening.
I feel no compunctions against killing parasitic things, but killing something for no better reason than it's in your proximity and you find it slightly annoying...well that's pretty childish.
Yes the world will survive if you remove an insect out of the population (as semi-large mammals we kill thousands completely unintentionally anyway) but if you're asking from a general morality standpoint, it seems like a choice between 2 options.
1) Kill something that is no harm to you.
2) Don't kill something that is no harm to you.
I'd think the latter is a little more enlightened. I also think people's growing sense of entitlement is bullshit, whether it's a justification to take something you didn't earn or whether it's doing whatever the fuck you want with the environment and its animal life "just because."
What's so great about humanity that makes us better? Look around, people are jerks!
Yes the world will survive if you remove an insect out of the population (as semi-large mammals we kill thousands completely unintentionally anyway) but if you're asking from a general morality standpoint, it seems like a choice between 2 options.
1) Kill something that is no harm to you.
2) Don't kill something that is no harm to you.
I'd think the latter is a little more enlightened. I also think people's growing sense of entitlement is bullshit, whether it's a justification to take something you didn't earn or whether it's doing whatever the fuck you want with the environment and its animal life "just because."
What's so great about humanity that makes us better? Look around, people are jerks!
Do you feel it is wrong to kill insects/other bugs?
No, they aren't aware of the happiness that life brings, so I'm not taking anything from them.
Under what circumstances do you think it is morally acceptable?
Any time they are either on my property, or bothering me when I'm outside. (Mosquitoes mostly outside)
Do you feel a pang of guilt for crushing a bug that wasn't harming you in any way?
I don't crush bugs that aren't harming some part of me, but I wouldn't if I did.
No, they aren't aware of the happiness that life brings, so I'm not taking anything from them.
Under what circumstances do you think it is morally acceptable?
Any time they are either on my property, or bothering me when I'm outside. (Mosquitoes mostly outside)
Do you feel a pang of guilt for crushing a bug that wasn't harming you in any way?
I don't crush bugs that aren't harming some part of me, but I wouldn't if I did.
I feel a slight bit of guilt, then i remember the time where i was about 10 years old when i got a insect bite, which turned into a viruses which ate a good amount of flesh on my chest that put me out for around a month. Then i forget about it and go about the day.
dont kill bugs just for fun, but if they are in your home or are bothering you, kill it swiftly, most of the time they wont know what hit them. bugs aren't intelligent enough to get revenge, or even care if you killed them or not, but they ARE living things and killing something for fun is always wrong.
I always try to avoid killing them. It just strikes me as unnecessarily cruel. After all, how hard is it to pick up a beetle and throw it out the window?
Come to think of it, I didn't even kill bugs when I was little. I used to threaten the other kids whenever I saw them squashing ants or whatnot. Oh, except one time when I put a spider and a jackjumper in a jar together to see if they would fight. They didn't. So let them out.
Nah, I'll leave the bug-killing to insecure little adolescent boys who need to feel they have some power in the world.
Come to think of it, I didn't even kill bugs when I was little. I used to threaten the other kids whenever I saw them squashing ants or whatnot. Oh, except one time when I put a spider and a jackjumper in a jar together to see if they would fight. They didn't. So let them out.
Nah, I'll leave the bug-killing to insecure little adolescent boys who need to feel they have some power in the world.
Kill the motherfuckers, it's a die or kill world out there.
Don't be pathetic like some kinda Hindu and kill 'em. Unless you wanna live in a hovel filled with roaches, spiders, and all their shit.
I only kill insects that annoy me... And I let centipedes go, they are awesome. I think I have a 2 inch long centipede and a few smaller one living around my house - I sometimes run into them at night. You know how useful those centipedes are? They don't touch you, don't show themselves during the day, don't have any nets and don't seem to leave any visible crap, and they eat spiders so you don't have to hunt 'em down. Seriously, if you have a lot of spiders, centipedes totally own them. I haven't seen a spider in my house for a while, my centipedes ate them all. Dunno what they eat now, but it's not my problem.
[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata[/link]
They're like your own little bug exterminator at home. Just read the list of what they eat! And that type couldn't even really bite you if they watned to.
Don't be pathetic like some kinda Hindu and kill 'em. Unless you wanna live in a hovel filled with roaches, spiders, and all their shit.
I only kill insects that annoy me... And I let centipedes go, they are awesome. I think I have a 2 inch long centipede and a few smaller one living around my house - I sometimes run into them at night. You know how useful those centipedes are? They don't touch you, don't show themselves during the day, don't have any nets and don't seem to leave any visible crap, and they eat spiders so you don't have to hunt 'em down. Seriously, if you have a lot of spiders, centipedes totally own them. I haven't seen a spider in my house for a while, my centipedes ate them all. Dunno what they eat now, but it's not my problem.
[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata[/link]
They're like your own little bug exterminator at home. Just read the list of what they eat! And that type couldn't even really bite you if they watned to.
A wasp stung me recently, despite me giving it ample aid to get out of my room instead of letting it bash itself into a coma on my window. So now I kill wasps that get into my room. Because I'm a dick. If flying kittens got into my room and tried to bite me, I'd kill them too.
Everything else is fine. Bees are so cute!
And spiders are pretty funny, too. There was one on my wall. Blow a little breath on them, they usually just bunch up. But this one did the spider equivalent of going "ahhhh!", running around in a circle and falling over.
Also, reading the topic, you people are really hostile towards insects. Bet you wouldn't go crushing kittens underfoot.
Everything else is fine. Bees are so cute!
And spiders are pretty funny, too. There was one on my wall. Blow a little breath on them, they usually just bunch up. But this one did the spider equivalent of going "ahhhh!", running around in a circle and falling over.
Also, reading the topic, you people are really hostile towards insects. Bet you wouldn't go crushing kittens underfoot.