Julia Thompson wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
Agnostic, but Atheist if pushed. I take most insects
out of the house without killing them. Why? Because
it's easy to do, and might reduce suffering.
My cousin the entomologist would catch flies in his hand and toss them
out the window still alive.
The only flying insects he'd kill were mosquitoes. Unless he was trying
to study something, and then he'd only kill as many individuals as he
needed for study. (By the time he was really good at throwing flies out
the window, he'd narrowed his study down to crickets, and was more
interested in studying them live than dead.)
Julia
I'm a vegetarian too, just so one has a baseline.
I certainly kill mosquitoes whenever I can, as well as
fleas, ticks and biting flies. All creatures may have
a right to live, but that doesn't mean they get to
attack me.
And I kill carpenter ants, to protect the wood of the
house. Is it ethically more acceptable to kill social
insects, since each one is less individual? So what
I'm doing is trimming back the "pseudopod" of the ant
colony that it stuck into my house, rather than
actually killing an organism?
---David
Hive mind Maru
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