I often see this with invertebrate animals such as spiders or wasps where people completely disregard that they are living beings. They may have simpler nervous systems, but they are still sentient beings. They aren’t mere cells, they think, even if on a simpler level. But they’re treated like they aren’t alive. Sometimes like pests that need to be gotten rid of, and I often see these genocidal statements floating around without consequence because, who would care for these creatures, that didn’t have the choice to be born as such?
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I pretty much catch and release all bugs that I find inside my house, including cockroaches. Wasps only get annihilated if they are really really bothersome and won’t go away.
Spiders and wasps are doing the Lord’s work out there and eating the actual annoying bugs.
Spiders and wasps know the risks they are taking by entering a human’s house. So, if they get unalived, THEY made the choice to ignore that risk….it’s on THEM. I don’t understand how it could be seen ANY other way….
I mean sure maybe, but I have more pressing things to care about. I feel like comparing the killing of bugs to genocide is kind of wild and diminishes what genocide is.
Wasps are really misunderstood little assholes.
Most really won’t bother humans unless they feel directly threatened, they’re actually pretty great pollinators, and they mostly prefer to hunt bugs and spiders that are harmful to us.
Spiders also get a bad rap. Garden spiders in particular are super chill, and I have a big soft spot for them.
We just really tend to see anything different from us as inconvenient or gross – and tbh says more about us as a species than about the critters.
Don’t even get me started on cephalopods. If they didn’t have such (heartbreakingly) short lifespans, 100% they’d be the ones running the world.
I let spiders live in my house. I don’t mind them as long as they keep their distance. There’s a huggge one behind the bathroom sink that comes out whenever I turn the light on.
Wasps can fuck off though. They will dive bomb me and sting for no reason. I don’t ever kill anything though but they’re getting wafted out the door lol.
I said this on another similar post a day or so ago but yes logically I’m aware spiders, wasps, and other insects have an important role in the ecosystem. That being said phobias aren’t rational and I happen to be extremely arachnophobic so those can absolutely do one as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t get it either 🙁 as someone who loves spiders and wasps and thinks they’re adorbs, they don’t deserve the hate
Nope they deserve the hate
Hey OP I’m sorry but I never get to talk about this.
The U.S and Mexico got rid of screw flies with no noticeable negative effect on the environment. I’m pretty sure that proves God did not make them. If God exists and made every other animal, that is.
You’re absolutely right but humans haven’t evolved morally past genocide and war, invertebrates are way down the list, unfortunately.
Definitely unpopular this one.
We’re one of those ‘tons of spiders everywhere but wasps are killed on sight’ households.
“Allowables
I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small spider
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn’t
And she scared me
And I smashed her
I don’t think
I’m allowed
To kill something
Because I am
Frightened.”
― Nikki Giovanni
But sometimes they are “pests to be gotten rid of”. I don’t have any issues with bugs, quite like them in fact. Don’t kill them if I don’t need to.
But I also have kids that play in my backyard. You better bet I’m gonna blast a hornet nest with poison if it’s in a place my kids will get stung.
I agree they’re sentient and beautiful living being – but in all honesty my convenience comes first. They would do the same to me if they could. Survival of the fittest and all that.
I’m not disagreeing.
I had a wolf spider jump on my hand the other day. Normally I just leave spiders alone but this guy broke the rules of engagement and had to go.