Hopeless Opus
diluc is my king
as long as cockroaches and wasps aren't being protected, i'm cool with it.
Do you believe we should respect and have rights for insects and arachnids?
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I can only dream though. c;
Thank you for not biting my head off and bringing up some valid points, the points you made in the first paragraph I already thought of when I was making my statement and I understand that but I just really think its unfair, I'm just going to leave it at that. c:
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I respect bugs and will remove them from my home alive if I can catch them, and don't bother them if they're not really bothering me. But I don't think there needs to be laws protecting insects though, at least not until they become endangered just like any other creature.
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I'm nice to most bugs and if I can catch it and put it back outside, I'll do that. I'll even avoid killing honeybees because they pollinate things and spiders because they're easy to catch and they eat other bugs. Wasps, however, are another story. If they're anywhere in my house I don't risk getting stung, or having my cats try to eat it.
Ive worked with insects, arachnids and myriapods (centipedes) over the last 3 years. They do deserve respect, but when you enter the "rights" area theres a big difference on invertebrates and regular animals, wich is the reproduction strategy. Sure, there should be protection to endemic species of invertebrates, but if your house becomes invaded with insects of course you are getting an exterminator to take care of it. They have much much bigger reproduction rates than vertebrates (and a much shorter life cycle in most insects)
Well I leave bugs alone if they don't mess with me, but if they consistently annoy me I'll kill them. I feel it's a waste of time to discuss the "feelings" of bugs. They outnumber us humans like a million to one. And bugs like mayflies live only one day. So I don't find it an issue if you kill it a few hours early. They deserve respect but not "rights".
I guess I don't get exactly why it's a waste of time to discuss their feelings. If they have feelings, then they are real, whether or not they have a large population or a short life span (although some bugs actually have incredibly long life spans, like 10 - 50 years)
I don't to an extent, bugs like cockroaches, ants, flies, they don't need rights, they're pathetic IMO, and really I hate only those bugs, but some bugs like bees we need them, so I'm against most bugs, but bees don't bother me, and if I see a bee I'll simply open my door, but If I see a fly or mosquito I'll kill it
I agree, technically most insects don't have feelings though, but I see that as irrelevant, just because they don't have feelings doesn't make it okay to kill them imo
Yes, but honestly there's a fine line between catching that spider and putting it outside in the timber versus having a bug crawl on me and meeting its doom. All living things should be respected but if there's a bug crawling on me, irritating me, stinging me, or just being generally annoying and it's too hard to carry it out (especially if it's a small one or if it's going to come back or others will come back) then I'll just smash and trash it.
This is true, we kill many things that don't have feelings, so I don't see his point lol
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I can break a rock and it has no feelings
The way I see it is that we kill plants for a reason (food, overgrown, etc.) I'm fine with eating plants, despite the fact that it's technically a dead living thing as the other option would be to eat animals and animal products, so it's less harmful in the end. If someone was to just go around chopping random trees down because they "don't like them" or because "there's loads of them and they don't have feelings so ?\_(ツ)_/?" I would personally find that morally wrong too
Also, insects have a brain and nervous system, plants do not.
My point is that in my opinion, feelings =/= worth.
Rocks are not alive. Minerals are not living things.
