Vegetarians.. would you kill a cockroach?!
or a mosquito, fly or other annoying insect if it was crawling around your bed, or in your room or near food etc!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
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I try my best not to kill any type of bugs!. I often spend several minutes trying to catch spiders, and other crawlers that enter my house, just to let them out in the backyard!.
However, sometimes the need arises where there is no choice!. Roaches and mosquitoes carry disease and I could not allow them to inhabit my home!. I would do everything in my power to end the infestation without resorting to killing them(such as keeping everything clean, putting food in air tight containers, etc), but if that didn't work I would be forced to kill the insects for my own heath!.
Vegetarians do their best to minimize cruelty, not martyr themselves for the cause!. If the choice is between my health, or the health of my family, I am going to choose that over the bugs!.
The difference between you and I, I genuinely feel remorse for taking that life, even if its only a bug!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
However, sometimes the need arises where there is no choice!. Roaches and mosquitoes carry disease and I could not allow them to inhabit my home!. I would do everything in my power to end the infestation without resorting to killing them(such as keeping everything clean, putting food in air tight containers, etc), but if that didn't work I would be forced to kill the insects for my own heath!.
Vegetarians do their best to minimize cruelty, not martyr themselves for the cause!. If the choice is between my health, or the health of my family, I am going to choose that over the bugs!.
The difference between you and I, I genuinely feel remorse for taking that life, even if its only a bug!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
A mosquito, yes, because it could give me a disease!. If a human was threatening my life, I would defend myself too!. A fly, no, because an annoyance is not a good enough reason for me to kill it!. If a person is annoying me, I am not going to kill him/her!. I'm vegan, and I don't think every life is "just as valuable as a human life"!. A plant's life is much less valuable, but I'm assuming you meant just animal life!. Even then, a bug's life is less important than a human life, because a bug can only experience a primitive form of suffering, if any!. Remember that it's about whether or not the being can suffer, not whether or not it's alive!. When you ask about people who have to kill animals to survive, that's completely different than people who go to the grocery store and buy factory-farmed animal products!. If a person really does have to kill animals himself to eat in order to survive, I would be more concerned about the human rights abuses in that area than animal rights!. Now I have a question for you: why are you so determined to find a flaw in the logic of animal rights!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
Have to and choose to are two different concepts!. Vegetarians choose not to eat meat or slaughter by-products!. But I am pretty sure most of them would do what needs to be done!.
Not killing a disease carrying mosquito or cockroach if necessary is not vegetarianism, it is lunacy!. And vegetarians are not generally lunatics!.
Your view that it is hypocritical is your opinion,!. You are entitled to it!. But did you know that people would also see you as a hypocrite if you keep a pet but eat other animals!? Why not eat your pet too!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
Not killing a disease carrying mosquito or cockroach if necessary is not vegetarianism, it is lunacy!. And vegetarians are not generally lunatics!.
Your view that it is hypocritical is your opinion,!. You are entitled to it!. But did you know that people would also see you as a hypocrite if you keep a pet but eat other animals!? Why not eat your pet too!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
No
In Buddhism there are 5 precepts one tries to live their life by!. The first of these is to refrain from taking a life!. I don’t normally quote other people’s works, but feel their words are better than any that I can give:
“Life is precious!. It is everywhere, inside us and all around us; it has so many forms!. The First Precept is born from the awareness that lives everywhere are being destroyed!. We see the suffering caused by the destruction of life, and we undertake to cultivate compassion and use it as a source of energy for the protection of people, animals, plants, and minerals!. The First Precept is a precept of compassion, karuna -- the ability to remove suffering and transform it!. When we see suffering, compassion is born in us!.”
~ By Thich Nhat Hanh
That explains my stance in a nuthsell!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
In Buddhism there are 5 precepts one tries to live their life by!. The first of these is to refrain from taking a life!. I don’t normally quote other people’s works, but feel their words are better than any that I can give:
“Life is precious!. It is everywhere, inside us and all around us; it has so many forms!. The First Precept is born from the awareness that lives everywhere are being destroyed!. We see the suffering caused by the destruction of life, and we undertake to cultivate compassion and use it as a source of energy for the protection of people, animals, plants, and minerals!. The First Precept is a precept of compassion, karuna -- the ability to remove suffering and transform it!. When we see suffering, compassion is born in us!.”
~ By Thich Nhat Hanh
That explains my stance in a nuthsell!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I have a really hard time killing even bugs i cant bring myself to do it so i usually just pick him up and put him outside or something like that (if its a cockroach or something that could bite me i pick it up with paper!.)
i kill mosquito's after they bite me but sometimes i feel bad about it!.
why are you asking!.!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
i kill mosquito's after they bite me but sometimes i feel bad about it!.
why are you asking!.!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I would never!. I learn ways to get rid of those poor cockroach from crawling, breeding and propagating!. It's very simple if you will!. Keep your home clean and clear, do not let your store & goods idle for long, and keep a few pieces of naphthalene in your drawer, stores, cupboards and shelves!. I would neither allow my kids fear to, or kill any bugs!. Prevention is better than cure!.!.!. non-violence is inculcated from very beginning of childhood!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I'd kill it but I wouldn't eat it, because I'm a vegetarian!. The only time I believe in killing anything is in self defense!. Things like flys and roaches spread disease!. If it was a ladybug I'd carry her back outside, because they are beneficial insects!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Of course!. Being a vegetarian, or vegan, is about doing what you can!. To reduce suffering of animals, to reduce destruction of the environment, to improve one's own health!. Killing a bug simply does not enter into it!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
NO BUT I WOULD WRESTLE THEM FOR A LEAF AND IF I LOST I WOULD NOT HOLD A GRUDGEWww@FoodAQ@Com
YES
I wouldn't eat it though!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I wouldn't eat it though!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
yes if it was really bothering me!. i really don't like bugss!!Www@FoodAQ@Com
no, I take them outside (or get someone else to take them outside)Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes!. Being vegetarian or vegan is about minimising your contribution to animal suffering and exploitation as much as is possible!. It isn't about allowing your own health or that of your family to be damaged!. Cockroaches and flies spread disease!.
I don't know what gave you the idea that veg*ns thought every life was as valuable as a human life; I've never met one who thinks that, and as a vegan I certainly value human life way over animal life!.
Hypocrisy means claiming higher standards than you in fact have, or saying one thing and doing another!. If I claimed that I wouldn't kill a cockroach in any circumstances, perhaps even reprimanded others for doing so, but I was in fact secretly killing them - that's hypocrisy!. Saying yes, I would kill them if they were in my house and then killing them if they were in my house - not hypocrisy
As for not killing a human - if I was attacked I would defend myself as necessary, be the attacker human, lion or mosquito!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I don't know what gave you the idea that veg*ns thought every life was as valuable as a human life; I've never met one who thinks that, and as a vegan I certainly value human life way over animal life!.
Hypocrisy means claiming higher standards than you in fact have, or saying one thing and doing another!. If I claimed that I wouldn't kill a cockroach in any circumstances, perhaps even reprimanded others for doing so, but I was in fact secretly killing them - that's hypocrisy!. Saying yes, I would kill them if they were in my house and then killing them if they were in my house - not hypocrisy
As for not killing a human - if I was attacked I would defend myself as necessary, be the attacker human, lion or mosquito!.Www@FoodAQ@Com