i'm weird

[SacredHeartFan]

Maybe I am just being wierd but sometimes I feel bad killing bugs and stuff. I mean who am I to say when their life should end. Should I worry about this? Maybe I am just being whatever that word is where you think everything is sin.

 

[UndertheRadar]

I would imagine the word you are looking for is scrupulous. I wouldn’t worry about it too much. In my humble opinion there is no sinful harm in it, although I try not to kill any of them without a reason simply because they are a part of God’s creation.

 

[rosebudsal]

Maybe I am just being wierd but sometimes I feel bad killing bugs and stuff. I mean who am I to say when their life should end. Should I worry about this? Maybe I am just being whatever that word is where you think everything is sin.

Oh man… I went through similar feelings last year when field mice invaded my house. I have two big dogs and they did nothing. I’m allergic to cats, and even if I wasn’t, my dogs don’t like cats, so I couldn’t have a natural predator to fend them off. I considered trapping them humanely and then taking them away to a far off land, but I resorted to unseemly methods.

I felt horrible. I really felt guilty, but I couldn’t tolerate mice in the house. When I’d dispose of them, I’d say a couple of prayers and hope that God forgave me and understood.

I usually leave most bugs alone. Crickets I try to catch and throw outside. We have some nasty looking spiders where I live and sometimes I’ll kill them but I read they’re harmless and eat other bugs. Moths usually end up dead around here. I have a flying-thing-phobia. Oh… man I’m weird too. Don’t feel bad. I think I’m worse and now everyone 'round here knows.

 

[allhers]

Well, if that is weird, then I am weird too.
I figure that if they stay outside, where in my opinion, they belong then they can live a nice natural life.
However, if they touch me, they will most likely have a hard time of it. Now I guess it depends on what kind of bug it is, if its a mosquito, it’s not going to live probably, if its a spider, more than likely it will have a hard time staying alive also. But, if its just a regular run of the mill ant or something that I can flick off of me, then hey, no big deal.
If it dares to come into my house however, (whatever it is), more than likely either the dog, cat or birds will get it.
I have hardly ever seen a bug in my house ever, thankfully, although I have seen other things like frogs, and other critters that can’t be called bugs but I usually have to try to save them from my pets. It doesn’t happen often either, thankfully.

 

[Caesar517]

I figure that if they stay outside, where in my opinion, they belong then they can live a nice natural life.
However, if they touch me, they will most likely have a hard time of it.

That’s where I stand.

 

[Molly2000z]

Maybe I am just being wierd but sometimes I feel bad killing bugs and stuff. I mean who am I to say when their life should end. Should I worry about this? Maybe I am just being whatever that word is where you think everything is sin.

I’m glad that you said that because I feel the same way. However, if they’re in my house it doesn’t bother me as much.

I don’t think that we’re wierd, just that we hate to take any life at all.
(I hate to bring down a cobweb, I keep thinking that it’s someone’s HOME, that they worked hard to BUILD!)

 

[SacredHeartFan]

I’m glad that you said that because I feel the same way. However, if they’re in my house it doesn’t bother me as much.

I don’t think that we’re wierd, just that we hate to take any life at all.
(I hate to bring down a cobweb, I keep thinking that it’s someone’s HOME, that they worked hard to BUILD!)

ohhhhh. i don’t bother with cobwebs and stuff. they get stuck to me.

 

[puzzleannie]

I don’t think it is wierd or scrupulous. I know a very fine priest who feels the same way, he actually fed baby mice in the building when the mother died or abandoned them.

there is a very sweet story about a monk who stood still for weeks because birds nested in his beard and he did not want to disturb them until they babies were big enough to fly away.

htat being said it is not immoral to rid a human dwelling of vermin in a humane way. critters belong outside, humans inside. killing bugs or any animals simply for pleasure is another problem altogether. and I am not talking about hunting game, which has a place in ecology, but about taking pleasure from the killing itself.

 

[juliasmith]

I used to not be bothered by bugs until I got bitten by a rather aggressive species of spider. I kill them every time I see one now.
I spent three weeks with an infected hole (tunneling wound) in my backside and took a round of double antibiotics to kill the infection. It was very painful.
No, I have no qualms about killing bugs now. No guilt whatsoever.