I can appreciate a distinction between the two words, and I believe both are useful. Someone crying during a film is a pretty raw and pure example of ...
That paragraph comes really close to describing how I've looked at it. If I were the size and form of an ant but retained all my current senses and in...
I'm not proud to admit it.. but if it were possible for bugs retaliate -- to take tit for tat, etc,... I'd be less inclined to step on them and more i...
I appreciate your interpretation, but what leads you to believe my agenda sprouts out of sadism? Let's apply what you say: I know that you believe tha...
When you use that specific imagery...no, I guess you wouldn't. Nor would I... You're trying to see if I acknowledge that my treatment of ants may be c...
That theory has been put forth but I question whether one's treatment of bugs is indicative of an empathy deficit when it comes to relationships in ev...
However, in the hypothetical scenario mentioned I wouldn't see it in terms of killing or be killed... although I'm sure the tiny people would. Intelli...
I'd venture to say they are incapable of using tit-for-tat strategy. My actions toward bugs I encounter probably won't ever come back to bite me, as I...
Hitler's agenda was cold, systematic murder on a mass scale though. My motivation for demolishing an anthill on my driveway isn't malicious. I don't h...
True there are other ways. But toying with nuts and other inanimate objects is less interesting and interactive than toying with ants. All are "unnece...
It's definitely unnecessary, no question. You say it gives you a different idea about the person: the act being a reaction to something more serious i...
I don't disapprove of your practice, although I don't practice it. When you see someone who pretty habitually squashes them, even going out of the way...
Can you substantiate that though? It is not true that animals kill only when necessary for survival. It's an interesting allegorical comparison... but...
If there were giants aliens who discovered Earth and started stepping on us for no reason -- much the same way I do ants -- then I wouldn't be in much...
Pain as in suffering, or pain as in chemical response to harmful stimulus? :brow: I'm not closed off to the idea of bugs experiencing pain, but it doe...
Hmm, but on the other hand: I have the wherewithal to recognize that much greater consideration must go into the killing of humans. There is greater l...
They apparently live in India and I'm certain I'd be unwelcome among them. Still, I wonder about their philosophy's applications. Those guys use broom...
I think you may be right. Even though it's an illogical leap though to see killing bugs as one step away from (or closer to) killing humans. Plenty of...
Ouch... :sad: Do you mean to say that ants perceive me as a faceless Cthulu-like titan? Cool. :grin: More serious response: I saw that movie too. I do...
What's so foreign to them about a shoe though? Their world is full of large objects and surfaces. I did some admittedly quick research and am learning...
Do you eat the elk that you hunt? If so, I doubt that many would take issue with your killing of them. Although premeditated, the hunting of the elk w...
https://i.imgur.com/mA1MrvE.jpg?3 Bugs that manage to grab my attention get a new home at the tip of the green arrow. Tenants come and go often. :grin...
I agree with your comment that the two are generally perceived quite differently; I just question if it's rational. Fishing is certainly constructive ...
No worries. Recreational fishing has its critics, for sure, but as someone earlier stated, it's often given a pass purely because of social convention...
Condemn was probably too strong a word. But I have experienced people who will scold or frown on bug squashing. For example, I have a good friend who ...
I think you are right... but the personal logic that people use to condone one activity while condemning the other is pretty terrible. "Fishing is dif...
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