I personally do. From my research, it appears that it's only been in the past few years that science has even been able to admit that dogs have feelings, something I think a lot of people have known for years, I don't think science is quite there that we can say for certain that insects and arachnids don't have feelings definitively, and until we actually know that, I personally want to try to respect them.
Do you believe we should respect and have rights for insects and arachnids?
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I think it's okay to draw the line at bugs who are possibly carrying diseases or bugs who are severely impacting your quality of life since they are technically trespassing, but I see people who kill all bugs for fun or kill bugs that could easily be thrown outside instead.
Aquari
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they are bugs, their life spans are so much shorter, so having "rights" for them is a waste of time, but if its an important species like the bees that are going extinct then yea obviously we shouldnt go around killing all of them, but other than that they are just bugs and spending time talking about their "feelings" is a waste of time
I guess I don't quite understand how the length of their life is a measurement of how valid their feelings are? If they have feelings, they exist whether they exist for a week or 100 years. (And actually, there are quite a few bugs who can live between 10 and 50 years!)
I'm guessing it's whether or not they are productive to our needs then, such as bees who make our food and whatnot, where as other species of bugs and arachnids usually work for their own needs? I guess then we just gotta agree to disagree, since I don't really believe that productivity = worth, nor do I think that just because they don't suit our needs doesn't mean they don't work to meet their own, which has it's own merit.
Oooh, going to those types of places is fascinating. Last time I went to a place like that, they let me carry a lot of really big insects, such as stick insects, preying mantis, and millipedes. (Not that a millipede is actually technically an insect, but things like insects haha)
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Kaleidoscopes
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I believe we should respect but not give the same rights we give any other animal to insects and arachnids. I'm all for laws that protect endangered species of insects, and I believe that there should be laws prohibiting people from placing two incompatible insects or arachnids together in the same enclosure for amusement; but I think it would be ridiculous if someone was charged $1000 dollars each time they accidentally stepped on a cricket walking to and from work or if there was a police investigation each time someone killed and flushed a spider down the toilet in their own home.
However, I do believe it is shameful to go out of your way to kill something when you could have easily ignored it or released it outside; but I believe in some cases it is justified, such as using medicine to kill the fleas off your dog or pest control to keep your house from becoming over-infested with any dangerous or aggressive species of insects and arachnids (especially if you have people living in your house that are more prone to dying or falling incredibly ill from the bite or sting of a venomous insect like little children or the elderly) - or just other general pests like bed bugs and termites.
However, I do believe it is shameful to go out of your way to kill something when you could have easily ignored it or released it outside; but I believe in some cases it is justified, such as using medicine to kill the fleas off your dog or pest control to keep your house from becoming over-infested with any dangerous or aggressive species of insects and arachnids (especially if you have people living in your house that are more prone to dying or falling incredibly ill from the bite or sting of a venomous insect like little children or the elderly) - or just other general pests like bed bugs and termites.
well i do to an extent. i understand how important insects are to the planet's ecosystem and food chain. like for bees for example. we would not be able to survive without bees. they're the ones who pollinate, flowers, fruit, vegetables, and wild plants and food for animals. right now were having an agricultural decline because so many of them are dying out because of human's pesticide/pollution.
insects can do jobs that human beings cant. or maybe humans can but it'll take technology and artificial creations to do the job. despite alot of people hating them because they're not all fuzzy and cute like puppies, we have to at least know how important they are.
insects can do jobs that human beings cant. or maybe humans can but it'll take technology and artificial creations to do the job. despite alot of people hating them because they're not all fuzzy and cute like puppies, we have to at least know how important they are.
Yeah, there are definitely too many instances of accidentally hurting bugs just on account of them being small that I don't think the penalties should be quite the same, and getting rid of pests is really self-defense most of the time, but I think that if a bug or arachnid isn't hurting you, it's best to try to just put it outside instead of kill it.
I guess I'm neutral about bugs having rights just as animals have rights.. because, on one hand, it's humane yet on the other hand, it isnt exactly practical. For one, we don't exactly know if insects have any emotion or feel anything at all. Do they feel pain the same way we feel pain? Also. If ever we violate any insect right whatsoever, it would be ridiculous to be fined for it.
Basically and I mean like.. really basically; I believe one reason animals have rights is because we can see that they feel pain/emotions.
Basically and I mean like.. really basically; I believe one reason animals have rights is because we can see that they feel pain/emotions.
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HungryForCereal
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lmao rights for insects? what a joke.
