Should we care about the life of an ant?

On whose authority do we have a "moral obligation" to life in general? Exactly what makes it wrong to kill ants?

 

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The fact that you wouldnt want to be crushed to death might make you at least think that an ant might not want to be crushed to death

 

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You didn't answer the question, and no

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Authority ? Who needs authority for morality ? Are you saying you need morality to be enforced on you ? That's sad.
What makes it wrong to kill a human ?

 

Oh, no I didn't did I. If they were doing it in the yard, I wouldn't care. (Unless their dad was helping them because he has an unnatural addiction to fire

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) If they were doing it in the driveway or sidewalk I'd tell them to leave them alone.

We had ants living in our garden. I let them be. I figured they weren't hurting anything. But they are NOT making big ol mounds in my yard!

 

Wrong, you do owe moral obligation to the lions because you are able to. A lion is not.

I'm truly appalled at your answers here..
You actually say it's alright to wipe out every last animal on the planet as long as it hasn't got any negative impact on humans.. !?

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Kids just do it for fun as they haven't fully developed their understanding of right and wrong yet. So, would you explain to your daughter why she shouldn't kill the ants ? And if so, how is that not a moral lesson ?

So you don't have any better answers ?

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Sometimes human arrogance and feeling of self importance is disgusting to me

 

So if your kid was torturing ants in the driveway you would tell them to leave them alone. Why ?

 

Yup, it's sad really

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So she could laugh manically as she runs them over in her car

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I feel a moral lesson coming up

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you didn't ask about torturing,

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you asked about killing.
I don't allow my kids to torture anything. The kids uncle took fireflies and drug them down the kid's faces so they glowed. I was horrified. If you kill it fine, but don't draw it out.

 

HEY!!! I only did that once! And I was drunk. and naked. And they were pointing all their legs at me. and they said my butt looked big.
Well of course it did! Everything looks big to an ant!!

 

Do you think they feel all comfy when they are being killed ?
Anyway, change torturing to killing then

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if we shouldn't be in Iraq, they shouldn't be in my yard.

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Well, they were right though... it IS big and kind of.. well square.. :roflmao:

 

ahhh as long as it doesnt suffer its okay to kill animals, ok well the next time I see a cat on my balcony I wont hesitate to stomp on its head, after all I dont want my potted plants to smell like cat piss.

 

lol right

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So please answer why you would tell your kid to leave the ants alone if he/she was killing them in the driveway for fun.

 

because it serves no purpose. The ants aren't hurting the cement. The kids aren't going to eat them. If we killed EVERY ant, maybe we'd be staving the frogs to death. If all the frogs died, then the herons and fish might starve. etc etc

But again, I'm not about to care about the life of an ant.

 

So do shouldn't do it only because it serves no purpose ? Why should that stop them ?