does anyone ever feel sad when..

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:02 am

Life is life. Salad is murder.

I try to save pests when I find them in my house, but if I step on a critter by accidents I don't feel guilty about it.

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:06 am

Salad Is Murder

Ima sell tee shirt.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Chuck(e)D Wrote:

I take no pleasure in taking life, but if it serves a purpose, I do it well and swiftly. I have killed many.

Awesome.

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:29 am

Billzebub Wrote:

Chuck(e)D Wrote:

I take no pleasure in taking life, but if it serves a purpose, I do it well and swiftly. I have killed many.

Awesome.

Chuck D. Norris

cemeterypolka · **Joined:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:40 am **Posts:** 3473

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

cemeterypolka Wrote:

wouldn't it be frightening if ghosts of insects existed and haunted us?

Look, you're a teenager -- you're already sensitive and your imagination runs away with you. You really shouldn't do drugs. Just give the wacky terbacky a break for a week or two, everything'll be fine.

haven't smoked since january 1.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:52 am

cemeterypolka Wrote:

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

cemeterypolka Wrote:

wouldn't it be frightening if ghosts of insects existed and haunted us?

Look, you're a teenager -- you're already sensitive and your imagination runs away with you. You really shouldn't do drugs. Just give the wacky terbacky a break for a week or two, everything'll be fine.

haven't smoked since january 1.

I was just making fun of the wackiness of your query. Don't mind me.

Sketch Wrote:

Salad is murder.

You just made this thread worthwhile.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:59 am

I rarely kill spiders. I like to keep them around to kill and eat the other pests. Two exceptions: If it's getting tarantular, I'll kill it, and if there are eggs, I kill them. I guess that makes me a Liberal, since I'm all for squashing the fat cat at the top of the heap and mass abortions.

I always kill the camel crickets, though I haven't seen any in a while.

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DumpJack · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:05 am

Chuck(e)D Wrote:

I take no pleasure in taking life, but if it serves a purpose, I do it well and swiftly. I have killed many kinds of life in the name of science, hopefully with a pure enough heart that I don't end up on a giant pinning board someday.

I have always done well with animals to near-doolittlean proportions, regardless of how uncuddly they might be. I guess that is a large part of why I'm a biologist.

I'm with my biologist friend here. My background is in neuroscience, so I have assisted in euthanizing many animals. Unlike him however, I do not do well with animals so I've been using the next best thing: people.

Based on my readings, I've always assumed that insects can sense some sense of that vague construct known as 'pain'. I do think that anthropomorphizing what we 'feel' as pain to what insects and some animals experience in order to increase their ability to survive is in no way equivalent.

And I'm not touching that any animal/consciousness argument. That gets too heated for words. People are way too into animals to logically debate this issue without insults and a heavy reliance on anecdotes.

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:17 am

DumpJack Wrote:

I've always assumed that insects can sense some sense of that vague construct known as 'pain'. I do think that anthropomorphizing what we 'feel' as pain to what insects and some animals experience in order to increase their ability to survive is in no way equivalent.

Yeah, I agree. I think insects feel 'pain' but might not have a system of processing that that 'pain' actually 'hurts.' The bugs might not necessarily equate that 'pain' is a horrible sensation, but I think they feel it.

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:22 am

Sketch Wrote:

Life is life. Salad is murder.

Awesome!

Leon · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:42 am

I kill bugs with extreme predjudice

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:46 am

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

But in the theory that they have families to take care of, wouldn't picking up said insect and taking it outside be the same as one of yr parents mysteriously dissappearing only to find out they've been taken to say California?

But do insects have "families" to take care of? I thought most insects lay their eggs and move on, or in some cases take care of the eggs until they hatch, then move on, leaving the li'l 'uns to fend for themselves.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:02 pm

This thread is the most pathetic pile of bunk that I've ever "scanned". I find that there are much more significant things to consider than stomping a friggin' bug.

:roll:

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:04 pm

There's never a thing so insignificant it doesn't merit a thread.

Next up: that grate on the bottom of the fridge, has anyone ever seen one attached properly?

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:05 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

This thread is the most pathetic pile of bunk that I've ever "scanned". I find that there are much more significant things to consider than stomping a friggin' bug.

:roll:

So you hate the gays AND the bugs, then?

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:08 pm

frosted a. spoon Wrote:

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

This thread is the most pathetic pile of bunk that I've ever "scanned". I find that there are much more significant things to consider than stomping a friggin' bug.

:roll:

So you hate the gays AND the bugs, then?

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:15 pm

Gay bugs is the worst

HideousLump · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:23 am

frosted a. spoon Wrote:

But I don't buy the "animals can't think or feel love" argument, either.

Grow up with farm animals and you know that's nonsense.

And no, I don't think that lamb was coming on to you.

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