an insect?
- yes
- no
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e(Y)e Once asked thus Question … ,
Tha Answer is no … ,
Brains .
Consciousness .
Soul .
Thots .
Happiness .
&
Fear .
No Hands .
Different .
We Should try and Find ways to Keep them Out of Houses … ,
and Perhaps Find Ways to Push them Back Outside … ,
Without Taking their Lives Away … … …
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I said yes but only if it was a wasp.
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a week or two ago, there was a cute beetle-like insect in my room. It was crawling away from my sleeping mat, so I didn’t kill it.
today, I was chilling and I saw a huge beetle-like insect near my sleeping mat. it wasn’t crawling away.
Not on purpose… 
I spied a very large cockroach mocking me when I flipped the light on in the garage. It dashed across the garage, put it’s butt way up high in the air and bounced it up and down like it was laughing at me.
It must have thought since I was barefoot, I couldn’t smash it flat.
It was wrong.
I dashed over so fast it had no time to run, and flattened the brat into the cement with my bare heal.
Ew.
Gross.
Soaked my foot in bleach for an hour, but with a smile on my face.
Moral of the story, don’t be a bug in my house-or you’ll be flat.
Outside, I don’t care.
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Im not supposed to being a buddhist, but im a bad buddhist so i do kill insects, and i also am a hunter, i only hunt animals i eat and use every bit of, its the hillbilly side of me that enjoys the thrill of the hunt, although many times i will hunt all week and not take a shot or pass up shots just because i dont enjoy taking a life, but sometimes i want to take game. Ive only missed hunting past few years since getting sick but ive only taken 2 deer since i was able to hunt at 12yrs old, im 32 in 10 days. But im a bad buddhist, thats why i consider myself an “independent” buddhist. I have my thoughts and cant completely commit to one school of thought.
Sometimes, depends, not other times, but those times yeah.
A moth flying around me at night, nope.
A black widow on my way home, nope.
A black widow on my face as i wake up, yeah.
Passing by a scorpion, no.
A scorpion in my shower while i’m in it, yep, probably.
A butterfly, nope.
A fly, not usually, depends if it just landed on my food and is at that point taking a â– â– â– â– on it.
A poisonous type within close enough vicinity, yep.
Mosquito landing on me and going for dinner, yep.
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I got pretty messed up, but I could never see myself killing another person.
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Yes. I kill insects without a second thought. Sometimes I think they’re sentient beings and killing them is cruel, but more often I’ll kill insects with joy, except for the beneficial insects, like praying mantises.
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I feel bad about it, as I see myself as a semi-buddhist, but yeah, I kill bugs if I don’t have another option.
Mose deff yoyoyoyo
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I am living with over 500 bodies, butterflies and moths, I killed these in the beginning of the 1980s . they are beautiful … I would not kill an ant or a wasp because there is not benefit for me …
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I once microwaved a fly. I also have a tendency to drown spiders in shampoo if I catch them in my shower.
I kill any bug/insect that comes in the house. (And mice too) My husband has more mercy and likes to catch and release. I prefer the squish method of removal. 
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My house has centipedes in the warmer months. I think they must all be sleeping in the walls during winter. I kill them on sight because they terrify me and supposedly bite.
But most insects, I would try to catch them and put them outside.
About the only time I will kill an insect is if it is causing immediate danger of harm like an ever-present wasp that is landing on people but even that is iffy. I once got in trouble at work for refusing to operate the fly-swatter.
However, I learned a hard lesson: my ex was totally blind. We had a spider infestation and I ignored it because I don’t kill spiders. They were not, after all, brown recluses or black widows, so we’re out of poisonous spiders in the Pacific Northwest, right? Wrong, coming in at #3 in poison level the Yellow Sac spider bite can make a person quite ill and they did. He sat on one on the bed, got bit and was sick for days. As the obvious protector in the relationship, I felt terrible.
So now, when in doubt, I investigate. But otherwise killing things makes me queasy and uncomfortable. I hate it.
No, but I would punch him in the nose if it jumped me in a dark alley. But I would not kill him.
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never killed a praying mantis or a honey bee… I will move most bugs out of the house…black widows brown recluse get insta killed… wolf spiders get a free pass they can stay in the house without worry… and I will actively hunt Japanese hornets…they kill my bees… mosquitos usually get me before I notice them but they can die after all the same… and dammmmm ticks I will burn with extreme prejudice even if it means I get burnt too…damn ticks… ants are a toss up… will destroy a whole colony of fire ants but will just lay down some cinnamon to block sugar ants from coming in…
I would kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. I’ve always wanted one.
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