I have mixed feelings about causing the deaths of bugs. I don't really like bugs. When I see them inside, I immediately step on them. Sometimes I step on them for fun outside. I love that momentary feeling I get of joy... The Godlike feeling I get, as I tower over a small insect thousands of times smaller than me, and the crunchy sound I hear as it's smashed under my shoe. My mind shouts, "YES!! I AM YOUR GOD!! HAHAHAHAHA!!"

And then the guilt sets in. Here's this little bug, walking down a sidewalk, bein' a bug, doin' the shit bugs do, getting it's bug on, and I've caused it an unnecessary death. Has it had time to experience the thrills of makin' buggy whoopy for the first time? Is it old and ready to go, or was it wee and young with a full bug's life ahead of it?

I always have a moment where I feel bad. Sometimes I vow to never squish one with out just cause again. Unless it's a spider. Then, I freeze in utter terror, squish, and then cry because it's on the bottom of my shoe. That's why I call my manfriend in to do the dirty spider-killing work. God, I hate spiders.

So, which bugs give you the best feeling when you've squished them?
How many have you slayed needlessly in the past week?

Discuss.
[Edited 9/6/06 1:20am]

*chirp/cricket noise*

*squashes cricket*
*Feels like God*
*Wishes people would post on her damn threads*

That's horrible. I'd never kill a bug for fun.

I'm the same as you - I just do it then realise...oh, that's something's life I just ended - would I do the same if kids were that small and still annoying?

The answer is probably yes.

Fauxie said:

No, but you would violate a man for fun.

Spookymuffin said:

Oh, Spooky, your words betray your issues. An Eton education has its pluses and minuses huh? No wait, in your case, it's all pluses.

CortestheBugKiller said:

i recognize the fact that, in the cosmic order of things, i'm a tiny bug on someone else's carpeting. so, i try to be merciful. i usually transport bugs outside instead of just crushing them. it's a little weird i know but there you have it

XxAxX said:

I've thought the same thing before, but never until the guilt of the life I've just taken settles in and I look at the brownish ooze on the bottom of my sneaker, and the Godlike energy stops pulsing through my veins.

XxAxX said:

you rock, my friend!

I will normally never needlessly kill an insect or arachnid, it seems so unecesary. Flies piss me off enormously and a wasp could kill me so I nuke them on sight if i get half a chance.

I was very moved when my little cousin (about 3 at the time) was moving insects off a footpath we were walking along so they didn't get killed by other walkers. At a time when most little boys are squishing anything with 6 or 8 legs.

It's house spider time of year in the UK though now, temp has just dropped a bit and the blighters are coming in. So many people are scared of these fellas cus they are huge, totally harmless but pretty big if you are phobic. last night I relocated one to the garden but Saturday I had to put a garden spade through one. I was helping m,y mate empty his shed he is super phobic and i don't just mean "eek look there is a spider" but cold sweats, nausea and he would have been a wreck for the whole weekend if he knew Charlotte was still nearby. I was sad, but I did it for a mate.

at the risk of distancing myself from orgers that I actually like.....


screw em, they're bugs.

CortestheKiller said:

when we were children we used to fry ants with magnifying glasses. it's only as i've aged that i've learned compassion and a sense of where i stand in the order of things. life is a learning process i think

IrresistibleB1tch said:

don't tread on me!

I've killed those big red ants before, but I'll only do it as a last resort when all else has failed to keep them from walking on the balcony and into my bedroom. I won't kill all of them, but instead lay down some lines of that special chalk. If that fails I'll spray the ones still coming too close and the rest seem to learn from that and make other plans. I hate doing it, but it's just not possible to co-exist with them if they're going to come into our room (where we have a fridge and all our food). I can't imagine ever killing a bug for fun or where it's just not necessary. I wouldn't try to kill a jing-jok (like a small gecko) that I see on the wall in the bathroom, so why a small bug?

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[Edited 9/6/06 8:19am]

I usually move them outside and I would never kill any for fun.

JustErin said:

I wish I was that morally upstanding.

I'm less likely to squish one if I'm in heels, for the record....

XxAxX said:

When I was a wee kid, I used to tear the legs off of daddy long leg spiders. Now I'm horrified of even those. I started having dreams they were marching on the three legs I left them to kill me in my sleep after awhile. I think it must've been guilt manifesting itself in my dreams. Or something.

I am happy to report I've not killed any insects today that I know of. Though I have walked down the sidewalk and such so I suppose I could've inadvertantly done so.

Oooh, and I once lit a slug on fire. I felt like shit about that, though, and I've never gone back to torturing with flame.