Is it normal that i feel bad whenever i hurt an insect?

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Somehow this doesn't include mosquitos or wasps.

This afternoon I let a bee that was sitting on my curtain slide inside a matchbox to let it out and when I was gonna put it down outside it was crawling out. I thought I maybe pissed it off so I panicked and propelled it on the ground. It landed on sand, later on I checked and it was gone..

I feel really bad about it, I must have hurt the poor bugger.

This isn't the first time. This one time there was a cricket in my house and I fed it some grass and stuff, but my cat tipped over a glass and it rolled over the cricket. After that, a leg seemed damaged but it was alive.

I fed it more grass and then I let it walk on my hand and placed it out in the garden, but I felt really bad about him getting hurt!

Is this even remotely normal?

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Based on 28 votes (25 yes)

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lordofopinions

5 years ago

You're just sensitive about hurting living things. Relax. The world needs more like you.

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- IrishPotato
  
  5 years ago
  
  I just feel like, just because it's really tiny and can't talk doesn't mean it doesn't feel.
  
  Sure, obviously it's not like a human being or a cat but it's still a creature with a consciousness you know.
  
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  - Alichael
    
    5 years ago
    
    I'm not sure if insects are really able to think or feel emotions like anger, fear, sadness, or happiness. They just use their senses like smell, taste, vision, and touch without any cognitive attatchments.
    
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    - IrishPotato
      
      5 years ago
      
      Well it's still conscious atleast.
      
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Ummitsstillme

5 years ago

I enjoy the sight of dead cockroaches and feel satisfaction when I execute a mosquito. But I believe there's a special place in hell for anyone that intentionally kills a ladybug.

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- Alichael
  
  5 years ago
  
  Daddy longlegs too, they seem so innocent and are known to be harmless. Then again, like my above comment says, I've read how insects, spiders, etc. don't have minds or the ability to think like we do or even animals like mammals do.
  
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  - lordofopinions
    
    5 years ago
    
    Of course insects can't think like us. For a start they have no language. They are driven by pure instinct. But if you go up the food chain to mammals then things get interesting. Its believed mammals think in images, again no language. The jury is still out on dolphins and whales and elephants etc.
    
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donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

5 years ago

bees is special

all the resta the bugs can fuck straight off

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- IrishPotato
  
  5 years ago
  
  What about grasshoppers? They're hella cute.
  
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  - donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    
    5 years ago
    
    dont they swarm & ruin crops?
    
    bees swarm & help crops
    
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    - IrishPotato
      
      5 years ago
      
      Do they? I'm not really an expert. I do have some crops along with loads of flowers and stuff in my garden. Apple trees and berry bushes and stuff. Does that count as crops?
      
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      - donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
        
        5 years ago
        
        if theres enougha anythin its destructive
        
        it dont happen everyday but it does happen
        
        hell theres a plaguea locusts in the bible and locusts is a typea grasshopper
        
        a handfula hoppers aint gonna hurt anythin though and is delicious for songbirds which id rather have around than bugs
        
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        IrishPotato
        
        5 years ago
        
        Oh you learn something new everyday!
        
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Boojum

5 years ago

I show no mercy to anything that wants my blood (mosquitoes, ticks, fleas), and I'll happily zap flies with our electric tennis racket fly-swat.

All other insects in the house usually get shooed outside, or picked up using the paper under a drinking glass technique.

Wasps are in a special category. During the spring and early summer, they're insectivores and not that interested in sweet stuff, so they don't bother people much and they get ushered out if they're in the house. However, late in the summer wasp colonies stop raising young, and this changes the behaviour of wasps. They no longer need protein to feed the larvae and the worker wasps no longer receive the sweet secretions produced by larvae, so then they start looking for sugar and become a nuisance to people. (They also start trying to get into our beehives to steal honey.) At that point, I start zapping them without pity.

Treating insects with respect seems to me humane and reasonable. There's evidence that the general level of insect populations is falling in many places due to various factors, many related to human activities. Insects are an important part of the ecological web since they're the food of higher species, so killing them all as a matter of routine seems to me pretty stupid and selfish.

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- IrishPotato
  
  5 years ago
  
  I actually have a phobia of wasps, they scare the hell out of me. How do I actually know if they'll leave me alone or not?
  
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  - lordofopinions
    
    5 years ago
    
    Wasps are dangerous only if you mess with their nest. I lived at a place that had a backyard fence and there was a wasp nest in one of the gate posts. We would go in and out of the gate all the time and they got used to us and didn't perceive us to be a threat.
    
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Vauael

5 years ago

Perfectly normal. I dont hurt any insect unless it could harm myself, my dogs or my kids. Now if my home had some kind of infestation, I would call an exterminator but just one or two random insects, no.

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- IrishPotato
  
  5 years ago
  
  The only thing I would call an exterminator for myself would be wasps.
  
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  - Vauael
    
    5 years ago
    
    In some areas of the US, cockroach, scorpion, and termite infestations are common. Anything like that, I wouldnt hesitate to call orkin.
    
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    - IrishPotato
      
      5 years ago
      
      Yeah we don't have those here.
      
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cipro

5 years ago

Completely normal. I cant bring myself to hurt any insects either besides mosquitoes.

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- IrishPotato
  
  5 years ago
  
  At least I know I'm not the only one now. :)
  
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  - cipro
    
    5 years ago
    
    Yeah my house is full of spiders. I remove their webs but i dont kill them.
    
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    - Alichael
      
      5 years ago
      
      They're not black widows, are they?
      
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      - cipro
        
        5 years ago
        
        Nah just ordinary spiders.
        
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    - IrishPotato
      
      5 years ago
      
      Since my girlfriend is an arachnaphobic, I remove them but I never kill them.
      
      I used to keep them there to eat mosquitos.
      
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      - Alichael
        
        5 years ago
        
        I remember the movie Aracnophobia.
        
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        IrishPotato
        
        5 years ago
        
        Never seen it! Is it good?
        
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MasterChives

5 years ago

Oh you are just the WORST.. I think you are a direct decendant of Hitler!!

You MURDERED a bee for just wanting to live in peace.. You blame the fact that you were scared but you imprisoned that helpless bastard then launched it onto sand, SAND!! of all things.. You really are sick!

Then, in your rampage you tried to murder a cricket.. A CRICKET!! Do you know many people call crickets little hopping angels that wont shut up. Also they are MASTERS of pointing out awkward silences during conversations..

Im glad the cricket survive your unquenchable bloodlust.

The cat is next isn’t it? NOT THE CAT!!

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You’ll be murdering humans in no time at all with the way you are going.. Im calling the police!!

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- IrishPotato
  
  5 years ago
  
  YOU DON'T KNOW MY ADDRESS
  
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  - MasterChives
    
    5 years ago
    
    Tell it to the cops you murderer!
    
    .. Also didn't realise this was you Sparrow!
    
    How.. how could you be so cold blooded?!
    
    I thought you were a mocha drinking renagade.. but.. alas..
    
    Still not a Stan though so theres that..
    
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    - IrishPotato
      
      5 years ago
      
      My demands are lots of mocha!
      
      Oh, I'm holding a ladybug hostage btw.
      
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      - MasterChives
        
        5 years ago
        
        Ah you got me by the balls here. All 3 of them.. Ah well, ladybugs are known to be pretty damn racist so to be honest. I'm 50/50 on this one.
        
        Let me talk to my legal team here..
        
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        They said fuck ladybugs..
        
        OK.. kill it.
        
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        IrishPotato
        
        5 years ago
        
        Okay so no demands? Darn.
        
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Alichael

5 years ago

I don't think that insects get pissed off, their brains aren't developed to which they can feel emotions like anger. They live by senses and instinct, but not emotions. They aren't capable of thinking.

I couldn't care less about killing an insect, except maybe daddy long legs. People call exterminators every day to get rid of insect festations.

I hate gnats, they feed on rotting food and filth, leave their maggots all over it, and then fly right into your face. You can't even see them until they're right in your face, which makes them so hard to get rid of.

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IrishPotato

5 years ago

With pleasure!

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IrishPotato

5 years ago

I just hope I won't kill that much! I don't go outside much so that helps haha

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IrishPotato

5 years ago

Do you guys think the bee is hurt though?

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