Killing bugs - is it wrong?

[Taddy]

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.

 

[mento 2425]

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.

 

[Zhukov]

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.

 

[Billion Backs]

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.

 

[Sebenko]

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!

Spoiler: Bzzzzzz!

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.

 

[Valkyrie101]

No, it's fine. At the end of the day, they aren't sentient. They don't have emotions, they can't think, they don't enjoy life as we do. Killing them makes no difference, not even to them really. And don' forget, they wouldn't hesitate to kill you if they could.

That said, they should be killed quickly. Deliberately inflicting pain, while not only immoral, is an indication of a sick mind, and I don't tend to agree with killing them just for fun. A quick kill doesn't faze me at all, but seeing them wriggle and having to finish them off does disturb me a little.

 

[Dedtoo]

No, i just give them a strong pat on the back

 

[TheStickman]

If I see a bug, I kill it, no questions.

 

[Spitfire175]

Any insect or arachnoid that dares to invade my excessively huge personal space will be obliterated without mercy or remorse.

 

[t_rexaur]

I only really go out of my way to kill Wasps and Slaters (a kind of UK slang for woodlouse I think). Wasps because they are vicious noisy little buggers and Slaters because they get everywhere. Oh also we sometimes get some form of beetle in the house they get it too.

Everything else just tends to get shooed back outside. Spiders and the like get caught and put outside since they are awesome.

 

[interspark]

is it wrong to kill humans? is it wrong to kill fluffy kittens? is it wrong to kill endangered lizards?

THEYRE ALL LIVING THINGS! the fact that theyre small and sometimes not as pretty as other creatures doesnt earn them the death penelty! just because you can, doesnt give you the right to take control over another creatures life and death! i was sitting with this kid in school on the field once, i saw him squash a spider, i was MORTIFIED, its just psycotic!

there, i think ive got my opinion through

 

[Outright Villainy]

If they plan to annoy me in any way, then yes I'll kill it and forget about it. I don't kill insects if they don't pose any threat though, I try to pick up spiders with pieces of paper and stuff like that.

 

[War Penguin]

It's wrong to kill the harmless ones. It's not wrong to kill the harmful ones. If it's a snail or a worn, I wouldn't kill it. If it was a spider or a cockroach, yeah, I'd kill it.

 

[Broady Brio]

Doesn't that depend on what you think?

Me? I kill them if they intrude my space. Fair deal, they stay away from me and I won't use my ring hand.

 

[interspark]

The way I see it, it's either him or me. Might as well be him.

how the hell is it you or him?!? what possible threat could any insect in a comunity advanced enough to have internet access be to you!?

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

If they annoy me, they die. I remember when my basement was under attack for a couple weeks. One sheet of paper has never laid waste to so many lives.

But sometimes I feel it would be manlier or a fun test of my control to pick up the bug with my hands and release it outside.

 

[Frankster]

I try to respect all forms of life, but my fear sometimes gets the better off me :\

So im totally merciless against spiders and mosquitos (the bane of my existence in fact, I must have delicious blood cos they all go for me!!!!) and have trained my kitties to kill em on sight.
More then once my valiant kitties have saved my life from spiders obviously trying to assassinate me (seriously, the entire friggin room and they need to run in front of my face? Its like they WANT to die!)

 

[lacktheknack]

I kill mosquitoes, but hate doing it.

I'm a bit weird.