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[Happosai]

I did tonight. There was a pretty large cricket in my room, so I tossed a towel on it like a net and stepped on it several times. After lifting up the towel, it wasn't moving so I figured he was dead. I picked it up in a paper towel and figured I'd drop it in the toilet to flush it. I sort of had to use the restroom anyway, so I dropped the paper towel and then urinated without really looking. I then went to flush the toilet and saw that it was still alive and trying to swim, and I basically had no other option but to flush at that point.

So I stepped on it and badly hurt it. Then pissed on it. Then flushed it down the toilet to drown.

I literally feel like a monster, and really regret not killing it quickly or taking the paper towel outside.

Roaches (the pest kind), flies, mosquitoes, and insects with venom strong enough to kill massive tissue from a bite are expendable. I keep cellar spiders and house centipedes to kill off other unwanted insects. I generally don't feel bad killing insects that spread disease or have a toxic sting. I don't kill bees or hornets...nothing wrong with them either.

 

[Lanrutcon]

Yeah.

Sometimes you run into a real grand specimen...you just know it's lived a long time, and you feel bad if you have to kill it. It's obviously a successful lifeform for having survived that long, and you have to wonder how much that bug had to overcome.

 

[MetalAlien]

I feel bad when anything dies without understanding why.

 

[nyr88nyg]

Killem all. Except for lady bugs and preying mantises. I fucking hate bugs.

 

[nyr88nyg]

Roaches (the pest kind), flies, mosquitoes, and insects with venom strong enough to kill massive tissue from a bite are expendable. I keep cellar spiders and house centipedes to kill off other unwanted insects. I generally don't feel bad killing insects that spread disease or have a toxic sting. I don't kill bees or hornets...nothing wrong with them either.

So if you see a caterpillar on your wall you just let it hang out?

 

[Halo is Back]

 

[lock2k]

Roaches die by the most gruesome ways. I also despise bookworms (some look like fucking demogorgon). Flies also get killed if possible. The rest I just let live.

I currently have one or more geckos living inside of the apartment and I love those little creatures. They're my allies and I never hurt one in my life.

 

[Pejo]

I never kill spiderbros because they catch and eat the bugs that actually get in my business and annoy me like flies and mosquitoes. Spiders are really misunderstood creatures like sharks.

 

[Happosai]

So if you see a caterpillar on your wall you just let it hang out?

Why not?

 

[Stouffers]

I tried to save a hummingbird once and I’m pretty sure I killed it.

 

[nemiroff]

Not really. But it does sometimes send me spiraling into philosophical and technological pondering about where conciousness and subjective experience starts. There are studies that say there are indications that insects do hold some subjective capabilities.

 

[Shambala]

Yea I be like damn. His mama probably waiting for him to come home and I just killed lil homie...

 

[-Minsc-]

Certainly not when the mosquitoes were trying to eat me tonight.

 

[greenteaforme]

A beetle flew into my hair the other day and got stuck in it, so I shook it out of my hair and it landed on the ground, and I was a bit rattled from hearing the bug right next to my ear and getting that creepy crawly feeling so I stepped on it. It didn't die, but it was missing a leg and my friends tried their best to make me feel bad about it because I "hurt him" and "look at him he's trying to move his broken half leg."

I was like damn, sorry I'm an asshole I guess but my hair isn't free real estate.

 

[and 3 others]

If it's got more then 4 legs, it gets stomped on by my 2.

 

[DogofWar]

Like OP I once was about to kill this huge ass cricket/grasshopper. It was a long and epic struggle and finally I managed to cut off it's head. Or so I thought, the bugger kept on leaping even though I had severed half it's head. I did feel a bit bad about that.

Otherwise bugs should be killed. The second the enter my home they are considered enemies and dealt with accordingly. The exception list are:

Bees
Bumblebees
Ladybugs
Butterflies

I also, usually, let spiders live since they eat insects. I see them as my soldiers in the war against the creeps.

 

[LocoCocoPops]

Yes. I’d seen this bee in the garden stuck in a spiderweb, struggling, so I wanted to save him. Fearful of being stung by humble bumblebee I got my lighter out and tried to separate the bee from the web. I ended up encasing the poor bastard In the web and also destroyed the home of a spider. Honestly felt like an absolute garbage tear human.
So yes it does make me feel bad.

 

[carlosrox]

For the last few years at least I have avoided killing any bugs unless it is pretty much necessary.

So the answer is very much yes. I do feel some guilt on the rare occasion I do it.

They're just trying to survive like everything else.

Empathy is important.