Posted: Mar 21, 2010 10:17 pm
NineBerry wrote:It's just insects. It's not like they have much consciousness or personality. So why wouldn't you kill them?
This is an example of an area in which I am admittedly irrational, but I do not kill things just because, ever. They only have their one life and unless I have justification for killing them, I just don't. On those few occasions when I had to stun rodents to feed to the snakes, I agonized about it all day like an executioner. I've had to euthanize animals before, but reconciled that at the time knowing they were suffering. I have killed animals for food, but reconciled that by knowing that they were not going to be wasted and that the kill was clean, quick and far more humane than any other predator would do it. I recognize this is an anthropomorphisization, but that's how it is.
I'm probably a little OC too because I try not to step on ants when they are on the sidewalk. I rescue earthworms from being on the sidewalk by putting them back on the grass. When I lived in So Cal, I used to rescue as many snails as I could after the rain. Pitiful, I know.
