Insects are a tough one. I keep a plastic bowl in my apartment with a piece of cardboard to trap cockroaches and mosquitoes. Then take them outside to be released. I once found a centipede and had to risk getting stung to catch him. My wife wanted to kill me as well. Here in Hawaii they are very fast, their bite excruciatingly painful and can swell your foot up for days.
I tried to use a hand-vac to catch ants and release them outside. After spending several hours sucking up maybe a thousand of them, I finally had to just give up. Keeping your house clean is the best way to avoid killing insects in the house.
When walking, pay attention to where you step to avoid stepping on insects. Don't scratch automatically every itch you feel.
Buying vegetables not grown organically grown kills insects as well. It is a moral conflict when I buy organic though. They cost twice as much as traditionally grown produce; money I could be using to sponsor refugees in India.
If an animal dies of natural causes, I see no problem with eating it. Actually, if a human dies in Africa and people are starving...

IceCream Wrote:have you ever watched "life in the undergrowth", btw? its amazing!! im not sure if people watch david attenborough outside the UK or not, but this series is soooo good!!

Dude when i'm alone I try to BE david attenborough. I speak in an english accent while looking at different insects and I pretend i know a thing or two about them.

strugglebunny Wrote:I would eat a baby if I could get away with it, and I knew it taste like bacon.

What the -? Really?

strugglebunny Wrote:Dolphins eat fish, and whales eat krill, they obviously don't give a shit. In fact, killer whales (orcas) will eat YOU, given a chance,

No, orcas have never before been documented as killing a human.

You know, I don't think we should drive the dolphins extinct, but I don't like going hungry either. And I am thoroughly amazed about how people care about dolphins more than issues like genocide and human trafficking. Those involve humans. Our species. Stop arguing and stuff. I don't know what I'm taking about, PS...

strugglebunny Wrote:I would eat a baby if I could get away with it, and I knew it taste like bacon.

Considering a baby shares 98% of the same DNA as a pig, it probably tastes almost exactly the same.

bodhisamaya Wrote:

strugglebunny Wrote:I would eat a baby if I could get away with it, and I knew it taste like bacon.

Considering a baby shares 98% of the same DNA as a pig, it probably tastes almost exactly the same.

It is the other other white meat, after all.

I don't like people who eat cute and/or intelligent creatures, if they could easily enough eat something else. That's the aesthetic reason. This is magnified if that eating lifestyle is objectively impractical, according to various scientific measures. However, I'd prefer to just put such people on my mental ****list and make a note not to stop even to urinate on them if I pass them on fire on the street, rather than try to persuade them, because I know most people don't have the same principles as I do. I'm not okay with that, but it's just too hard to talk over the fundamentalists making *their* arguments or to undo other peoples' beliefs. ;p Plus if I draw attention to myself, I might get on their lists as well, hehe.

I often call people fundamentalists when I'm losing an argument too

kazelee Wrote:I often call people fundamentalists when I'm losing an argument too

Pfft, honeychile, you haven't *seen* me arguing. 'Tis a thing of beauty, the planets themselves slow their spinning the better to witness my soul-crushing fact checks, my relentless ad hominems layered in intricate subtext designed to disorient yet compel. Lelouch himself asked me for tips on persuasion! I told him to stop mispronouncing 'geas', for starters.

kazelee Wrote:I often call people fundamentalists when I'm losing an argument too

People who eat dolphins are worse than hitler!