A small rock of course.. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Hey, everyone gets pissed off sometimes. Maybe the people that like to take it out on an animal also take it out on their wife. I see absolutely NO logic in killing an ant because you have stress. Just because insects are small doesn't mean they deserve less respect. Would you have said the same things if the title of the thread was "Should we care about the life of a deer" ? I will not accept it. The best choice is to point it out to these people that what they are doing isn't right and hope you reach one or two.
Yeah I would have said same thing. I say if it takes out pain within a human...psychological pain...than go do it...kill the deer to save the human.
yes, he/she is human...he/she has genetic information that can be favorable to existence of human civilization further evolution.
...we are are talking here between a choice of a humand or something else. Anything else...but not a human.
So why should I care ? We don't need anymore people with that mindset, destroying nature is destroying mankind.
What I meant is, people are hypocrites. It's ok to step on an ant but 'oh no don't kill that cute little bunny.. '. People draw an arbitrary line somewhere where they don't have to care about the animals 'below' it. It's hypocritical.
Most people are. I applaud that you are not, but I still don't get how you can agree with someone killing a deer because he is stressed out.
Because he was stresses out !? :bugeye: If that were true he belongs behind bars, he's mentally unstable or a psychopath.
you would be surprised how many people are mentally unstable. There will be not enough bars to hold them all.
Unfortunately your are right, but it still doesn't make it right to kill an animal because you are stressed out. I agree that it may be more favorable to let the lunatic kill kill an ant instead of a human, but both killings are wrong.
you cannot live like Buddha, floating above the world. Exerting no force on the world. You kill bacteria every day...why do you lessen bacteria lifes below ants lifes? just because bacteria are small...you lessen them?
No, they're not. Ants are simple biological automata, no more worthy of "care" or respect than a chunk of construction debris.
I'm talking about intentional killing for no good purpose. If your house is invested with wasps because there is a wasps nest on the porch you can have them exterminated. But if you are taking a walk in the forest and you see a mushroom it is not alright to step on it just for the fun of it. But if you step on it by accident it's alright.