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THEDONN
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| Feathery
User ID: 41363534 United States08/01/2022 10:05 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great post. I don't feel good. I only kill moths and misquotes. Most other insects don't bother me, with the exception of the R word (so gross I can't even say it). I kill ants out of necessity sometimes, but don't like doing it. I've learned how to relocate them away from the house, you just lay out sugar fruits and surgery foods and they move towards it. I adore most of my garden insects, just love them. Several varieties of bees, wasps, these adorable yellow white butterfly's, green beetles. Tomfoolery |
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| Crunch62
User ID: 76646017 United States08/01/2022 10:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I generally live and let live. I need bees in my garden for pollination. Spiders for the most part help keep the mosquitoes down. Exceptions are paper wasps and yellow jackets. I eliminate their nests when possible as they can be extremely aggressive. Venomous spiders such as black widows also get the boot. I've been married so long, I don't even look both ways when I cross the street. |
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| Black Unit
User ID: 13767076 United States08/01/2022 10:09 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've done my fair share of killing, especially spiders, ants, flies, bees, and moths that get into my home. Quoting: E CaT PanTHer However I'm starting to feel really guilty lately everytime I swat one of these creatures. Is killing insects morally wrong? Do insects feel pain? Does the Bible condemn these killings? Will god judge me in the afterlife? Been having the same thoughts. I’m a life long hunter, although never for sport. Now when I kill a bee I think, did it suffer? Weird |
| nutmeg
User ID: 76388104 United States08/01/2022 10:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I feel awful when I do, but I kill crickets, which invade my house/garage, especially in the fall. I kill flies and mosquitoes. I never ever kill spiders. If I find them in my house during the summer, I gently trap them and take them outside. If I find them in my house in the winter, I take them to the garage. Killing spiders is bad luck.  Last Edited by nutmeg on 08/01/2022 10:13 PM |
| Monitor51
User ID: 83848084  Portugal08/01/2022 10:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And in the Universe there are real Doctors Insectoids, they are called Mantis. Last Edited by Monitor51 on 08/01/2022 10:10 PM I have 1111 on my ID Card and that shows me how i woke up... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 83947975 08/01/2022 10:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great post. Quoting: Feathery I don't feel good. I only kill moths and misquotes. Most other insects don't bother me, with the exception of the R word (so gross I can't even say it). I kill ants out of necessity sometimes, but don't like doing it. I've learned how to relocate them away from the house, you just lay out sugar fruits and surgery foods and they move towards it. I adore most of my garden insects, just love them. Several varieties of bees, wasps, these adorable yellow white butterfly's, green beetles. Check out a roach close up. They really do have cool personalities. I hate what my cat does to them but that's mostly out of my control. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 82375160 United States08/01/2022 10:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do they feel pain? While it is clear that insects have the capacity for pain indicator responses, they totally lack the needed infrastructure to "feel" anything. They can respond to damage, and this can look like our own response to pain, but they cannot perform the needed mental processing to feel. Their simplicity means that your killing them is not, in fact a thing that will produce pain in the way we understand it. Is it morally wrong to kill insects? This one question could be a book! Instead of hitting all angles of the issue, let my summarize my own personal take... Since it is unavoidable to prevent the death of insects in your daily life, it would be wrong of anyone to proclaim such deaths a moral problem or issue. That said, it might be ecologically wrong, if you kill too many insects in a needed zone, say with massive spraying, or things like that. But no, it isn't morally wrong. If they are in your way, killing them is fine, within reason. Will God judge you for it? First, God, the way you are thinking of it, doesn't exist. So no. That aside, I believe the bible gave dominion of the Earth and Seas to mankind as a steward. This means culling, as well as curing, aiding as well as exploiting. The bible also covers the kinds of allowable insects to eat, which seems to be allowing for their deaths... I think you're good, given that. |
| sssssteve
User ID: 79409220 United States08/01/2022 10:15 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've done my fair share of killing, especially spiders, ants, flies, bees, and moths that get into my home. Quoting: E CaT PanTHer However I'm starting to feel really guilty lately everytime I swat one of these creatures. Is killing insects morally wrong? Do insects feel pain? Does the Bible condemn these killings? Will god judge me in the afterlife? don't think that hard....... |
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| Coastie Patriot
User ID: 80939887 United States08/01/2022 10:17 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Beats eating them Coastie Patriot SIC SEMPER TYRRANIS THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SAID NO GUNS BECAUSE OF POLICE NOW WANT TO DEFUND THE POLICE!!!! Dr Thaddeus They They don't really care whether the truth gets out, because the public no longer knows what's meant by "the truth." Well, I mean, no one can tell the difference anymore between what's real and what's fake. Anyway, the point is, I can tell you all of this, right out in the open, because it doesn't matter who knows about it. They won't know whether to believe it or not.- X Files: Lost art of Forehead Sweat A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. -SHANE- Jefferson Smith: You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that . - MR Smith Goes To Washington- to grow up remembering th My oath to support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic has no expiration date!!! Ten Bears : It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. Outlaw Josey Wales |
| TurtleKing
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| BRIEF
User ID: 79662918 United States08/01/2022 10:18 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've done my fair share of killing, especially spiders, ants, flies, bees, and moths that get into my home. Quoting: E CaT PanTHer However I'm starting to feel really guilty lately everytime I swat one of these creatures. Is killing insects morally wrong? Do insects feel pain? Does the Bible condemn these killings? Will god judge me in the afterlife? God gave man dominion over the flora and fauna, just so that people like you wouldn't have to feel bad about pest control or killing for food... I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked.  |
| blunt man
User ID: 83244392  Luxembourg08/01/2022 10:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I only kill insects that go out of their wsy to bite me. Ants, biting flies, mosquitoes, ect. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81201280 I feel no wrong in this. I feel wrong when I have killed insects just to kill them because they were in my house or something. but do they really go out of their way?... it's a very basic consciousness so biting you is not done in malice, they just following simple programming. Your choice to react on the other hand is rooted in much more sophisticated programming and your sovereignty is being tested to see if you act or react. |
| nutmeg
User ID: 76388104 United States08/01/2022 10:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in New Jersey, and in the past few years we have been warned about the Spotted Lantern Fly. They're very destructive and are destroying crops and trees....June through November. Since June, I have killed hundreds. They are attracted to birch trees, and I have two large River Birch trees in my back yard. What I don't understand is ....if God created everything, what is the purpose of the Lantern Fly? I must admit...they're pretty. I feel awful killing them, but I like my trees. |
| FlashBuzzkill
User ID: 80346963 United States08/01/2022 10:24 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's great to read so many comments valuing insect life. I hated them as a kid and waged war on them but like you I learned to respect their uniqueness. Some bugs like mosquitos and ticks we can be at war with, that's ok. They wanna eat us so all's fair in war, eh? Snakes too. The things I feared as a child have become a fascination for me. They are some amazing critters. Last Edited by FlashBuzzkill on 08/01/2022 10:26 PM Gen. John B Gordon and Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest were the finest citizen-soldiers birthed in America. |
| nutmeg
User ID: 76388104 United States08/01/2022 10:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I suspect that the pro-insect people here all own cats. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83946828 Just a hunch. Perhaps we have love in our hearts for all creatures, large and small. Try it someday. It's a good thing. Cats are great....but they should be kept indoors and petted often. If outdoors, they kill birds, rabbits, etc. |
| Remedial_Rebel
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 54469829 United States08/01/2022 10:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I try to avoid killing them if possible. I feel terrible when I'm digging in the garden and my shovel slices a worm. What can you do? It's like Robert Burns' poem "Ode To A Mouse". He feels the same when he knows those mice's winter nest is ruined all but guaranteeing them certain death in the harsh conditions. Mosquitoes I am torn as well. When I feel the bite, my hand often takes a life. I wish it weren't so, but it is almost reflexive. This must be part of how our world is "fallen". One day the lion will lie down with the lamb. |
| FlashBuzzkill
User ID: 80346963 United States08/01/2022 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cats are great....but they should be kept indoors and petted often. If outdoors, they kill birds, rabbits, etc. Quoting: nutmeg I have a rabbit that would kick my cats butt if she tried anything on him. Keep food available and most cats won't hunt birds but shrews and mice they can't resist. Also make your yard bird un-friendly near ground level if you do have outdoor cats like me. No open water on the ground, keep lower branches on shrubs clipped, no tall grass for cats to hide in - that sort of thing. I did have a near-disaster a few days ago. Noticed cat going in to stalk mode and I saw something caught in a spider web. I assumed it was a cicada flopping around but it was a hummingbird. It got itself free. Gen. John B Gordon and Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest were the finest citizen-soldiers birthed in America. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78957669 United States08/01/2022 10:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've done my fair share of killing, especially spiders, ants, flies, bees, and moths that get into my home. Quoting: E CaT PanTHer However I'm starting to feel really guilty lately everytime I swat one of these creatures. Is killing insects morally wrong? Do insects feel pain? Does the Bible condemn these killings? Will god judge me in the afterlife? Mosquitoes will die without a doubt other bugs that cross my path case by case spiders I have to squash them it's just the way it is |
