Your first thought when you see a roach

[E-mantheseeker]

...is usually that the roach needs to die, this thought is usually immediate and done without serious consideration of the roach's life. I was inspired to write this post when my little sister saw a spider and screamed for me to kill it, I joked around saying, "Are you asking me to commit murder?" and she looked at me and said, "Just do it."

This got me thinking that given the knowledge of human nature roaches and other insects would fear for their lives all the time, because they're constantly at risk to be murdered upon sight.

So I ask, why is it so impulsive for many of us to murder insects? & do you ever feel bad for doing so, or consider the life of the insects? Do any of us actually have a justified reason for killing insects?

 

[poptart123]

slobs

 

[GonzoGamer]

Roaches & Centipedes/Millipedes/Silverfish I need to kill immediately. It's just an urge. Most other insects I can tolerate for some reason.

 

[throwitinthetrash]

Because bugs are ickyyyy!

Most people are raised with others that are repulsed by the sight of insects/arachnids, which causes them to develop similar phobias of them. Some people are also plainly disturbed by things with more than 4 appendages. So this inevitably creates a cycle.
And bugs can't think or scream in terror, and have no concept of family or what death means.

 

[iain62a]

I don't think there are cockroaches where I live, on The Isle of Lewis. Not since Saint Tormod drove them away...

You'd probably need to be from Lewis to get that...

 

[Chickenlittle]

This place is disgusting. I think people only kill insects because they naturally see them as not human and deserving to die.

Most people don't think that horses and dogs deserve to die, as they are not human either.

Now, KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

 

[[Gavo]]

I thought that this was about pot roaches for a sec...anyways, I don't really care, unless they're in my house. Then they die. Same with ants.

 

[Gman6817]

They outnumber us and I don't need them in my house so i kill them or relocate them. I don't kill them outside, that's their house.

 

[Abedeus]

YOU GO SQUISH NOW!

This place is disgusting. I think people only kill insects because they naturally see them as not human and deserving to die.

Law of the jungle. It tries to eat/spoil my food/endangers my health, I will endanger his health. With extreme severety.

 

[ace_of_something]

Because they spread disease pretty readily. They poop everywhere.

 

[Voicuboyy]

when i was a small child i killed something every 5 seconds when i went outside.. but now i don't really want to kill anything[i just throw insects through the window] i think satisfied my urge when i was small

 

[Sewer Rat]

Attack with: Shoe of Doom. It's Super Effective!

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

It's just a primal instinct we have in the back of our heads.
Don't ask me why though, probably something to do with disease and other stuff usually associated with roaches and other insects.

 

[Frizzle]

My first reaction: RUN!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!!!!

Reasoning: I was playing games with my buddy one time, and we had the door open. A roach flew into my room, and landed against the wall in the corner. My buddy, bult like a brick house, throws my steel toe 10.5 (US) shoe at it and hits it with the toe. Know what it does? Flies to another part of my room. We hit it like 2 or 3 more times, and it still didn't die. I refuse to mess with roaches unless i have a can of spray, and a wide open space. They are one of the few living creatures that I can. not. stand.

 

[The Kind Cannibal]

As long as it isn't endangering my food, or my health I leave it be.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Well, this is going to sound really nerdy, but after reading Anansi Boys, I don't kill spiders anymore. And I suppose having them around probably helps keep down other bugs.

On either end of my house, there are these vents right under the roof that usually have big hornet or wasp nests in them in the summer. Those I exterminate with extreme prejudice. Flies, too.

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

I have had a large Huntsman Spider on my wall for over a month. We get along just fine.

 

[-IT-]

NUKE EM! . . . oh wait

 

[clicketycrack]

Its pretty much ok to kill most insects because their so unintelligent that death isn't even a concept their minds can comprehend. Also because they look gross and spread disease.

 

[kommando367]

Step 1: hit with remote control or another object.
Step 2: acquire paper towel and use it to pick up roach corpse.
Step 3: profit!