Is it normal that i feel bad when i kill anything

I do feel very bad when killing things in real life, such as bugs and even plants. I just feel guilty about it. I know that plants don't feel pain, but I still feel bad for some reason. When my mom kills weeds, I feel bad. Then I have to kill them, which makes me feel worse. I sometime take little pieces of revivable plants from the dirt pile on the road, where people throw away their plants and organic matter, and propagate them.

And I think I have a perfectly good reason about feeling bad when I kill bugs. I usually try to stay away from killing them, but sometimes, I'll wash some ants down the sink, if they are their. I don't have the time to remove all the ants from the sink... yes sometimes, they trail. Then, I would try to make myself feel better by saying,"Ants, run away from the water, or you'll be flushed." It makes me feel cruel. In a biology project, we had to kill bugs and pin them. The first time killing a beetle, I put it in the kill jar. It made me physically sick, when the insect flew around panicking, bumping into the glass. I almost threw up.
Another time, I remember in elementary school, my friends went out and resolved to kill snails, despite my best efforts to stop them. They sprinkled salt onto the snail, torturing the poor thing. I stayed back when they did that. Then afterwards, I urged them to finished it off, like crush it under their shoe or something, since it wasn't dead yet. I had to do it myself... when they didn't.

But I realized that I also feel bad when I damage inanimate objects. For example, if I kick a hole in a wall after the outburst of emotion, I will feel sorry for the wall. And then I would make a silent apology, like saying "I'm sorry wall, you didn't deserve it."
That causes me to resort to self harm... because I can't release my frustration on other things. I don't feel bad if I'm harming myself....

Okay, so I remember playing games such as Spore or Sims. In Spore, I would always avoid killing the animals and destroying the tribes... It made me feel bad when I killed them. Especially in creature stage where they would run away from you. And you would brutally track them down, killing the babies as well... I would have to remind myself that they are not real.
In Sims, I remember trying out to killing a character, as many people did in that game. I thought it would be fun, but I immediately felt bad, when the sim dies and the grim reaper came. I felt regretful and sick. The sim was crying and begging to not get taken away... why do they make it so emotional?.. As with spore, I had to remind myself that they weren't real.

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  • shuggy-chan

    That's a bit over board, but I understand how u free, I don't like killing anything, bugs plants included. Exempting bug that bite me

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  • Shrunk

    I am exactly the same except the part about self-harm, that is bad :(
    Don't you feel sorry for killing the cells in your body when you do that..?

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  • edna

    I kill babies all the time

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  • I shall kill humans one sunny day. And frolic in in their gizzards. I must because they are planting mind control seeds in my brain, must stop them, must kill them....all...

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    • JadedUnknown

      Honestly, I don't feel horribly bad when I see a human getting hurt. I think it's because I feel that they deserve it, whereas other innocent creatures don't. I also have a more darkish humor...

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      • Nobody truly does deserve it though you see, I feel like that quite often too, but life is too short for such bullshit in reality. I think our humour may just make us more objective towards these things.

        I feel terrible when others get hurt. I have a dark sense of humour, maybe even a darker side, but I'm pretty kind deep down. The real problem is the feces that I tend to attract. I mean my ex has been cyber stalking me for a year and for what? The same old shit that doesn't matter. Should just give up and leave me be, but nooooo. Sometimes I get so mad that I don't want to do the right thing and just go right off into evil territory but I calm and realise I'm not that bad.

        I shall take the high road and share thy white light, even with them, as we step into the mouth of infinity.

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        • JadedUnknown

          I noticed that you kept expanding your answer with more detail, thought, and even replacing some of the meaner language for nicer ones?.. Thanks for the input. I tend to do the same.

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          • I just got to remind myself that people ARE people sometimes.

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  • suckonthis9

    Yes it is normal to feel 'empathy';

    "2 : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this." - Merriam-Webster.

    BUT, it is not usually normal for a person to feel 'extreme' empathy, as you do. However, there is always a minority segment in society and some philosophies which espouse this.

    "Synonym discussion: adopt embrace espouse mean to take an opinion, policy, or practice as one's own. adopt implies accepting something created by another or foreign to one's nature <forced to adopt new policies>. embrace implies a ready or happy acceptance <embraced the customs of their new homeland>. espouse adds an implication of close attachment to a cause and a sharing of its fortunes <espoused the cause of women's rights>." - Merriam-Webster

    It is not usually normal to feel extreme empathy for non-sentient life forms, such as (but not limited to) plants and arthropods.
    It is important to learn and understand which life forms are beneficial to their respective natural environments (ecosystems), AND which ones are considered to be a 'weed', 'pest', or 'exotic and invasive species'.
    Please consider that by 'promoting' or not killing an exotic and invasive species, you are inadvertently killing other native species that belong to those natural ecosystems.

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  • sega31098

    Sometimes I feel that way. Seeing a potato skinned sometimes makes me feel sad.

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