I do my absolute best to not kill ants and other little critters...
Are they Sentient? Idk... "Err on the side of Compassion"
Mosquitos and other blood sucking insects are sufficiently different...
I get that if there's an afterlife where all of my shortsightedness wasnt in the way anymore I would see somehow that genocidal rage of these little pests wasting my time is out of alignment... somehow... but I would argue from a purist perspective it was over before the thought even occurred to me to go vegan... my distracted accidental swatting away having killed enough to the point accidentally where I will always be in the red so I may as well kill them all!?!?!? what sort of sophist is going to argue mosquitos have more of a right to life in this world than I would of having a right to a life without mosquitos?!?! surely that minimal leap could be made by even toddlers, the purpose of this world is not to have humans exist for mosquitos to bite...
the purpose of this world is for humans and not mosquitos... the foundational authoritative reference, philosophical bedrock
Are they Sentient? Idk... "Err on the side of Compassion"
Mosquitos and other blood sucking insects are sufficiently different...
I get that if there's an afterlife where all of my shortsightedness wasnt in the way anymore I would see somehow that genocidal rage of these little pests wasting my time is out of alignment... somehow... but I would argue from a purist perspective it was over before the thought even occurred to me to go vegan... my distracted accidental swatting away having killed enough to the point accidentally where I will always be in the red so I may as well kill them all!?!?!? what sort of sophist is going to argue mosquitos have more of a right to life in this world than I would of having a right to a life without mosquitos?!?! surely that minimal leap could be made by even toddlers, the purpose of this world is not to have humans exist for mosquitos to bite...
the purpose of this world is for humans and not mosquitos... the foundational authoritative reference, philosophical bedrock