Compassion and empathy do not rely on someone else’s value to you, so instead of having “compassion” for bugs only because they serve a purpose in the ecosystem you rely on you, think about how they are living their life and having their own unique experience of the world, the same way your friends do.
I have none of those traits but I do love to watch tiny little critters going along doing their thing without a care in the world. Except for the invasive ones and the parasites.
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As a software engineer I have to say... Nope, bugs must go.
Bugs can live outside. Not indoors in my production code. Don't ask where "outside" is in this metaphor.
As a software dev I don’t call them bugs. Just happy little accidents.
Happy little features
You stay out of my bed and I stay out of your bed, is the deal. They can take it or get thrown out.
Agreed. You vibing around me? We're chill. Land on my face at 3am? All bets are off.
I think some think your bed is their bed as well..
I am leftist, but I draw the line of interspecies communal property at my bed.
I have zero empathy for bugs after Buenos Aires. THE ONLY GOOD BUG, IS A DEAD BUG
I have a deal with the ants in my garden. I get to grow vegetables on their land, they get part of the vegetables and don't destroy everything.
Compassion and empathy do not rely on someone else’s value to you, so instead of having “compassion” for bugs only because they serve a purpose in the ecosystem you rely on you, think about how they are living their life and having their own unique experience of the world, the same way your friends do.
Do mosquitoes count as bugs?
I have none of those traits but I do love to watch tiny little critters going along doing their thing without a care in the world. Except for the invasive ones and the parasites.
Insects are my homies
me initially assuming it's about programming
The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own.
Is that really true of insects? I'd go out on a limb and that the way they experience pain is different from a mammal.
Okay, but I didn't say pain. Is body pain the only thing that makes you experience suffering?
I like the way worms make fertiliser