11-20-2011, 01:14 PM
(11-20-2011, 01:09 PM)Diana Wrote: I'm pretty sure that PETA is not about that--only caring about the cute and furry. PETA has "chosen their battle" so to speak. PETA is helping animals being tested on especially, which does not occur so much with insects.
What about the masses of insects which are murdered every year by farmers growing crops to feed humans?
Diana Wrote:As for me, I respect all life. I kill nothing, not even cockroaches. I carried a scorpion outside (in a jar) that had bitten me in bed. Every opportunity I get I try and save a life (someone "just because" killing a spider for instance; I don't lecture the person, I just carry it outside).
But you are OK if somebody else killed an insect in order to grow your vegetables?
Do you wash your hair? Because there are all sorts of tiny bugs that like to live in human hair. What about if a housepet got fleas? Would you just let them be?
Diana Wrote:About the microbes: what I meant about the size was, how would microbes get around the fact that because of their microscopic size they get smushed easily, hence, the effects of such a happening would be accepted as it is inevitable. Not so with larger beings.
Fine. But then you are not making an assessment based upon "what is alive". You are making an assessment based upon "what is large".