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Not true. Insects do have a central nervous system, albeit a less complex one than higher animals.
That's why scientific experiments often use fruit flies, as a simpler model for studying brain development, as well as in genetics. Some insects like bees and ants are capable of feats of memory and communication from and to their nest or hive.
That said, it doesn't mean that they necessarily can "suffer" the same way we do.
Hummmmmm, a mosquito with existential angst???? I find that a bit hard to believe. Dang......I know human I don't believe are capable of E.A.
I've been catching a lot of stink bugs in the house. You can't kill them becaue they'll stink. Nice defensive mechanism. So I catch them in a paper towel and either toss them outside to freeze to death or I wad the paper towel up and toss them in the trash can. Hopefully they stay in the nice warm trash can until I empty it.
I have no remorse or regret what happens to them. They entered the house and are annoying. I let spiders stay in their webs in the basement windows and leave them be. I don't hate bugs, really.
i like insects and spiders, but i'm getting pretty tired of those chinese stinkbugs myself. most bugs, and all spiders, that i find get an escort outdoors. the stinkbugs i toss 'em in the toilet, and discovered they can tread cold water for at least 24 hours.
i went back west for christmas, and there were 2 stinkbugs nestled in the clothes i brought along which had been hanging in the closet. before you know it, the rest of the country will be infested with the dang things.
Although Buddhists and Hindus practice ahimsa, none do it with the thoroughness of the Jains, whose monastic communities are known to carry small brooms to sweep the path in front of them lest they unknowingly crush small insects, to wear face masks to avoid breathing in insects, and to eschew swimming or bathing so as not to injure invisible water bodies.
i went back west for christmas, and there were 2 stinkbugs nestled in the clothes i brought along which had been hanging in the closet. before you know it, the rest of the country will be infested with the dang things.
It is still life that is being extinguished so I think for particular individuals it would be natural to feel guilty. Not a lot people feel guilty about doing anything anymore and I find that an unnatural state of being.
My mother had a honey bee swarm just under her kitchen window. I was going to call an exterminator, but instead opted to contact a bee keeper. He removed the hive and most of the bees without harming them, and brought them to his home to add to his collection. I chose this option because honeybees have a purpose and support our ecosystem. Honestly, though, I do not have any issues with killing other insects (other than ladybugs and butterflies, but that is more superstition). This was a special case.
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It is still life that is being extinguished so I think for particular individuals it would be natural to feel guilty. Not a lot people feel guilty about doing anything anymore and I find that an unnatural state of being.
I had to use bug spray on a black widow I found on the outside of my house. Felt horribly guilty for having to use it. But the bites can be lethal to small domestic animals (I've heard), and can even in rare cases be fatal to humans. Only black widows, brown recluse, scorpions and cockroaches get bug spray. If I am able, I'll stomp on it, versus bug spray, for a more humane method, but they're not always in places you can stomp on them, thus the need for spray. As far as crickets, wolf spiders, mealy bugs, silverfish, moths, etc, they all get a pardon, as I always, always, always take them outside, and they get a second chance. I must have found thirty crickets in one year, and I took each and every one of them outside for a second chance. I took ten minutes once to get a moth outside. I even once pardoned a scorpion. To sound moderately religious: they are all God's creatures, and we must love all things that God made. We should pardon all bugs, except those which are potentially fatal/very seriously harmful to us.
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