Should animal cruelty apply to any insects?

Everybody is ok with killing insects in your house, like roaches and spiders. Yes, you can step on ants every day and defend yourself from bugs but....

Let me ask you something viners. Animal cruelty applies to animals but what about when insects are killed in a cruel way, for no purpose? Should insects have protection from the people that put a magnifying glass to an insect to watch them burn and twitch? What about cutting parts of insects just because you want too and dumping acid on ant hills?

Albusan is PETA agent confirmed.

No.

No.

insects need to die

infestations are no good....if they stay out of my way i stay out of theirs

Though I oppose general insect and lower-life-form sadism (Think burning ants with a magnifying glass, or sprinkling salt on a snail), I don't think insects feel pain, are intelligent or even fully qualify as sentient. So no, I don't think animal rights should apply to them.

It shouldn't apply to animals.Their beneath us...Especially dogs..

If it's for no purpose, then yes. It's cruel.

I agree. I do use insects for fishing however... Some people would say fishing is cruel, but a girl needs to eat.

When I was little I would trap a bunch of ants, take my magnifying glass and watch them fry. So no, it should not apply to insects or else I would have been fined at a really early age.

@naamah_obyzouth: Damn straight.

Ha, no.

@those_eyes:

@naamah_obyzouth: Agreed. It is what it is.

Anyways, on to the topic, no.

I'm sorry but I can't kill a bug that's bigger than a fly, if I find a stink bug in the house I'll pick it up and take it outside.

Spiders eat the bugs in the house so they're useful

Just.. why?@ the question.

A life is a life. If I disposed of everything that annoyed me, half of my hometown would be pushin' up daisies.

Disgusting. I would run over that damn thing with a semi-truck

No. If an insect is in my home, it dies. Simple as that.

No. Most house insects are pests.

No

@the_stegman: What about harmless stink bugs? Or a lady bug?

all the bugs

No because I don't really think insects are like other animals. They're straight up robots. Plus they can be very annoying and d!cks for no reason. But I think honey bees, earthworms, and house spiders shouldn't be killed because they are actually useful.

Insects lack higher brain function. They process information like pain differently than larger animals.

So what, you think a person should be hated for accidentally stepping on a bug without even noticing?

Yes, of course. Although since insects are much more persistant in disturbing your day to day life in ways such as entering your home and laying ******* eggs everywhere I do see the need for some flexibility in the rule, for an instant killing them is fine but there is no reason you shouldn't do it as painlessly as possible. Intentionally inflecting pain without a valid reason is always wrong.

There's enough to go around.

@ccraft: Maybe not a ladybug.. Or a butterfly. But everything else, must die.

unless its endangered

depends

Yes, insects feel pain albeit in a way different to most vertebrates and some invertebrates (mostly cephalopods). There are some really horrible videos on youtube of people dousing cockroaches in gasoline and setting fire to them. I don't care what it does or how much annoyance it causes nothing deserves to be treated like that

@unbreakable_fs4:

Are people so desperate to make threads that this is the best they can come up with. It would be awesome if common sense was common.

Agreed. But sadly there are far worse threads in the off-topic that really make you want to never come back here again.

I've never killed an insect

It really depends. If you are worried about the laws on animal cruelty, you won't get in trouble as long as you do not kill any endangered species and someone finds out about it. So, killing them in your home in order to prevent diseases or your furniture is alright. - MXX

LOL

No. Imagine going to jail for killing a insect.

Your. Rude.

@the_stegman:

HEY I don't see you in my threads, about innate fear and of Edvard Munch!

@ccraft: In a heartbeat.

@the_stegman: Hehe they're cute tho, I used to see them all the time when I visited WV