I think it's fun to step on ants. So what?

Discussion in 'Ethics, Morality, & Justice' started by Thrylix, Feb 15, 2008.

  1. Thrylix Registered Member

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    It's not sadism or being a psychopath. It's just habit or boredom when I'm sitting a picnic with my girlfriend and I see them crawling on to my sneakers (annoying). Or when I'm playing soccer with my friends and I slowly stomp an anthill with one cleat to see how many I can crush at once. I don't do it for any particular reason... I just get a kick out of it. It's like asking someone why they kick a rock when they can just as easily not.

    Why should I care about the lives of little bugs that just crawl around and move stuff? As far as I care, I'm a higher and much huger life form, so my temporary amusement is more important to me than their tiny little lives. If the last thing the bastards get to see over their heads are the bottom of my giant, stinking feet about to crunch their puny little selves into jelly because I think it's funny, then tough luck for them. It's survival of the biggest.

    Disagree?
     
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  3. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    sociaopath on the lose

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    Crulty to animals is one of the first signs of a sociopath

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  5. shichimenshyo Caught in the machine Registered Senior Member

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    We already had a thread similar to this.


    What makes you think that your any better than an ant? The fact that you are bigger, or smarter?

    If you were a rich genius would you be okay with killing the mentally disabled and poor, after all your bigger and better so why not?

    Now I am no saint I used to kill ants when I was little, but now I see no reason. Killing something for no other reason than you can, does make you sound like a sociopath.
     
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  7. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    I do that too, it doesn't matter. Ants are parts of a colony, like a super-organism. They regularly sacrifice themselves for the good of the whole. The only reason they have so many offspring is because so many of them get killed for various reasons.
     
  8. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    spider it doesnt matter about how the ants feel about it. The random desire to hurt or kill animals has been PROVEN to be an indicator for sociopathic tendancies
     
  9. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    what's random?
     
  10. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    Well in this case it refers to the killing of animals (and incects) for no specific purpose or for "fun"

    Things like pulling the wings off a fly, burning a cat, have been shown to be indicators of sociopathic tendancies.

    This is why goverments are looking even MORE strongly at what they should do with people charged with cruelty to animals
     
  11. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    I would never hurt a cat, but insects are different. In my case, they invaded my house, which is a capital offense.
     
  12. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Thrylix,
    have you ever seen the sidewalk covered with worms after a long rain? Would you stomp those or walk around them?
     
  13. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    I see no need to kill animals unless they intend to harm you. Other than that we should all share this world together peacefully.
     
  14. shichimenshyo Caught in the machine Registered Senior Member

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    You can just step over them, its easy its not like a bunch of ants walking across a sidewalk take up that much space.
     
  15. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    You actually step on the earthworms and snails after it rains? I try to avoid them at all cost. Even when it doesn't rain. I never go looking for insects to step on. that reminds me of an episode of Robot Chicken "Weasle Stomping Day"
     
  16. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    who does that???
     
  17. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    I don't know. Thats gross. Their squishy.
     
  18. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    squishy?? Ah, so you have stepped on them.

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  19. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    They taste better when they haven't been squished.

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  20. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    I don't step on worms or insects that cross my path, that would be cruel.
     
  21. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    I have stepped on them when i was little, but I know their squishy because I work with them all of the time in lab.
     
  22. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    sorry....I thought you said, it's fun to sleep with ants, and I thought....that's strange.
     
  23. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Ever fry some on the bunsen burner??

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