What Is The Reason We Didn’t Kill The Ladybug And We Killed The Fly?

Why does killing a cat or a dog get a huge backlash, while killing a sheep or cow for food doesn’t matter to anyone but vegans and vegetarians? Since cats and dogs have been with us for generations on our street or in our home, we have established with them. Is it because of empathy? Are we more sensitive about their deaths?

Let there be no misunderstanding about this, although killing cats and dogs is more condemned than killing other animals, the harm done to them is still not given enough attention. The murderer who kills a cat receives only a slight fine and is equated with damaging property. Why do we see the deaths of animals as simple and why? different kinds of animals How do we react to death differently? What is the reason why the threshold of condemnation for killing some animals has changed? Why is a sheep worth less than a cat, why is a sheep more valuable than a mole? Why is a mole more valuable than a butterfly, a butterfly more valuable than a fly, and a fly more valuable than a microorganism?

jainism Members of a religion called ‘they continue their lives by wearing masks so as not to harm the bacteria. In other words, they have an idea beyond veganism. As they do not eat meat, they do their best not to harm a fly or even a microorganism. This shows that the compassion we show towards living things varies considerably depending on their species.

“If you kill a cockroach, you are a hero; if you kill a butterfly, you are the devil. Morality has aesthetic standards.” Is Nietzsche right?

ladybugLet’s take the example of i, we do not hesitate to kill these insects because it looks aesthetically pleasing. However, ladybugs are also susceptible to bacteria and are predators that eat small insects alive. In other words, we determine what to kill and what not to kill by doing formalism.

In order to examine this issue in detail, the opposition to killing animals for whatever reason. We asked 9 vegan friends: Vegans, who are against animal exploitation, do not prefer to eat even honey and propolis produced by bees, as they are a form of exploitation. What do vegans who care about bees think about flies? Do they kill flies that fly around, land on their food and can be annoying? Or are they trying to banish it with non-lethal methods? Is the feeling of pity for a flea at the same level as those who do not kill flies because they feel pity? What are the no-kill thresholds?

Here are some answers from vegans:

Aysima: I think that someone who is ethically vegan would not kill a fly, consciously. There is nothing we can do in terms of what we have unwittingly caused, but I think it is a very subjective matter to disturb. If we think that we cannot determine the vital value of a chicken, since there is no speciesism in veganism and all animals are considered equal, this is also true for fly/insect.

Eve: Unfortunately, it is a subject that I cannot give a clear answer to, but instead of killing it, I prefer herbal methods to remove it, or if I come across it, I prefer to take it to the balcony or garden with any object. Although I argue that ethically, it should not be killed, for example, in an environment infested by cockroaches, there is no other choice but to spray. I can’t say “If it bothers you, you should kill it”, but unfortunately this happens in practice. They are less common in clean places, but that’s why I usually use methods to solve the problem, even if I encounter them at home. But in the end, unfortunately, there is no better method to do in our own lives, just as we save the cat’s body with fleas by spraying it.

Crop: I think this should be more than just an inconvenience. I mean, okay, it might bother you, but it’s also possible to get away without killing it. However, if the event is in a situation that will affect the health of the person, of course, the person should protect himself first. So I personally don’t bother, I try to prevent the navegans in the house. My preference is to have it fly out the window. I mean, even the place where people live is important, for example, I live on the ground floor of a building with a small garden, soil and green are intertwined; no trouble, it will be that insect/fly anyway. That’s why the medicine doesn’t help much anyway.

Sea: 🙁 Matters that confuse me a lot, but I hate flies, I can’t stand it and I kill them. This is my personal experience and I don’t find myself ethical about it.

Mirai: I’ve been living with flies in the house for 3 days. Since there is no mosquito net, I cannot prevent it, we live as brothers and sisters. I’m generally a proponent of getting them outside without killing them, but things like fleas/ticks are parasites, so my attitude towards them is a little different than bugs. Actually, fly can also carry disease, but I can’t even if I try to kill it, but if my cat has fleas, I will use medicine for his health. Using pesticides for mosquitoes is also my last choice, I usually favor changing rooms.

Olcay: While there are dozens of ways to fire or evacuate without killing, I find this question malicious. Even my mother carries insects from home to the garden with a towel.

Schema: I personally do not find it right to kill any of them. I prefer to remove it somehow without killing it with natural methods, essential oils etc.

Nilgun: I do not kill insects at all. In fact, I wanted to catch a spider and set it free last night, but I got a brush with the people in the house because it escaped between the parquets. I have no experience with fleas, but I think the threshold here should be not to kill/not kill the flea, but to avoid fleas/to take precautions in the first place.

Sun: So I think killing fleas is necessary for my health and being able to go out in public, but spiders and flies do no harm to me, they can hang around. To those who kill spiders/flies, “Wow, how can you kill!” I probably wouldn’t.

This is how vegan friends think about it. Some kill, some do not. They have their own reasons.

Flies are known to live up to 28 days in favorable conditions. Does their short lifespan make them less valuable creatures?

After all, the life span of a human is less than a fly compared to the time of the universe. who have a life expectancy many times longer than us a very intelligent alien race Let’s imagine that he came out, somehow they get the right to simply kill us because our life expectancy is too short for them?

Even this alien race also in size Let’s imagine that we are as small as a fly next to them. It would probably be insignificant for them, but a tragedy for humans, for people to step over us by belittling their intelligence, level of consciousness, and size. So, according to this idea, we will need to empathize with insects.

Are flies, which are 5 trillion more in number than us, really unnecessary and harmful creatures?

If you are bitten by a tsetse fly, you can get sleeping sickness. The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness, is a creature carried by the tsetse fly. When the tsetse fly stings you, this parasite mixes with the blood and causes sleeping sickness. After this disease continues for a certain period of time with hidden symptoms, in its last stages, continuous sleep and comatose state is seen. There is no drug treatment yet.

Mosquito species such as malaria deadly diseases We know it’s spreading. Carrying deadly diseases such as cholera, dysentery, hepatitis B, polio and tuberculosis can also pose a serious danger. If black flies are flying over your food they may have vomited. After leaving an acidic vomit on the solid material they will consume, this acid dissolves the solid food into a liquid form for them to take. In this way, they also feed by sucking them.

Although these have harmful effects, the beneficial effects of flies are also quite high.

It is wondered if there will be any shortages when they are destroyed. Flies are pests that occur in nature. to the disappearance of the carcasses gives support. They occupy a very important place in the food chain in order not to disturb the balance. By taking advantage of dead creatures that can harm the world, they take energy and at the same time completely destroy these living things. In this way, they represent an important potential in the eradication of many infectious diseases that will harm living things. In other words, sometimes they are carriers of diseases, and sometimes they prevent the spread of diseases.

We despise flies, but we are genetically very similar. 61% of our DNA is the same as fruit flies.

Although we are far in the evolutionary process, we can still find a common signature in the genome of a common ancestor.

Let’s leave flies and talk about discrimination against other species.

You may remember that a while ago in Australia, 2 million cats were killed by poisonous sausages with kangaroo meat thrown from airplanes. Some by snipers was shot. This is because cats kill an average of 377 million birds and 649 million reptiles each year.

If the issue is to harm nature and other animals, you know very well the species that leads the way: People! Should 2 million people be killed again by throwing sausages or sniping? Think like Thanos?

When bird flu cases occur, hundreds of thousands of chickens are culled. However, the virus also infects people, even those who are not sick when a pandemic starts to gather and gather. should it be burned like chickens? Or should more conscientious methods be found? Do they take it easy because their lives are seen as worthless?

Another controversy arises due to the difference in food culture. How sincere is it that we are angry that the Chinese eat cats and dogs while we eat sheep and cows?

The reason we find it disgusting that different animals are eaten in China is because that cuisine is ours. It’s about being distant from our culture. According to Indian culture, our cuisine is disgusting. In other words, we are the characters formed by the kneading of the culture we were born in. In a way, we are brainwashed creatures. In order to reach our own awareness, it is necessary to erase these social effects.

In other words, eating a cat in China is just as terrible as eating a sheep in Turkey. Not here though if you were born there maybe you’d have dog meat for your dinner today. Then you have to eat every animal or not eat any animal, regardless of different species.

Studies show that animals are much more intelligent than we think, each with a different personality.

Even chickens that are thought to be stupid are smart creatures, and they’ve been shown to be better at learning their names than cats. with the owners They are known to form emotional bonds. Vegans think that a habit inherited from the wild people living in caves has been going on for centuries: killing animals for food.

We also know that there was cannibalism in primitive tribes. Eating human flesh is very normal according to their culture. If this culture had continued, a chaos environment would have prevailed now. Oddly enough, for the vast majority, eating human flesh would be considered a perfectly natural behavior. That’s probably why eating animal meat at least 100 years later can be seen as cannibalism.

Vegans claim that this cave-age habit will end in a hundred years as awareness grows and we realize that we don’t have to eat meat.

Fast food chains, food companies offer vegan options, and the number of vegan cafes is increasing rapidly. Meat production from cells studies are being carried out and this will prevent animal deaths. Most importantly, the impact of the livestock industry, which has a very bad effect on climate change, will decrease.

In summary; “It wouldn’t hurt even an ant.” The world seems to be a much better place as the number of people they call increases. It seems that we should listen to Nietzsche and tidy up the aesthetic standards of morality.