Should we care about the life of an ant?

W

Why?

Registered Senior Member
I step on ants all the time. Crush their little lives right out of them. Is this wrong?
 
Nope, it's not wrong.

Should we kill termites that eat the wood structure of our homes?

Should we breed and raise cattle, then kill them, butcher them, roast the meat and eat it? Hmm?

Baron Max
 
No. All these things are o.k. with me. Now, I wouldn't want to do the butchering - but, I would if I had to in order to stay alive.
 
Hell no! Did you ever see the movie Them? They'd do the same or worse to us if they had half a chance.
 
I don't go out of my way to kill any insects.
But when they start coming in your house......SPLAT
 
Mahavira, an ancient Buddha (contemporary of Gautam Buddha) on whom base teachings Jainism was founded used to say we need to respect all living creatures. Jainism today has more than 4 million followers in India.

He used to sleep in one side of his body, and he didn´t move during the entire night, because he could kill an insect on the process.
He also never walked in grass, because many insects live there.
Plus he was always naked (I don´t really know the reason for that, but we all want to do that unconciously).

mahavira_sm.jpg

Mahavira.jpg


I´m not saying that killing insects is good or bad; killing an insect is killing a living creature, just that, it is not something to catalog as good or bad.

I used to burn ants when I had a lighter in my hand; hell, I burn anything at reach when I have a lighter in my hand. Now I feel just a little bad, so I don´t burn insects to death anymore :eek:.
 
Yes, but I also like to go out of my way to kill ants. I'll actually move over a little while walking just to step on one. Is that wrong?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top