Hello everyone, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, and I’m having a hard time coming up with a solution to my question, so I’d like to hear what the community has to say. If you have experience with pinning insects, or even if you don’t and you have thoughts about it, please answer this…

[image] octobertraveler: especially with insect numbers declining This is a big reason. Maybe not everyone can feel empathy for the life of a creature so different from ourselves; but I think we on iNat can understand the idea of a tipping point – the idea that there is some threshold where a…

I feel like we need to keep things in perspective. As @rayray points out the vast majority of people crush insects when they see them. The only exception is if they fall into the “pretty insect” category like butterflies. If you disagree with this, I think your living in a bit of a bubble or in a…

Just stop pretending that people who don’t pin insect are saint ones and who do that are doomed people with no empathy to non-human life, examples were presented to show nobody is that good and insect populations are decreasing because of habitat loss, without stopping it nothing will change to posi…

[image] nathantaylor: I also have to ask, would you feel the same way if someone pinned a cockroach from an infestation you had in your house? How is a cockroach any less important than a butterfly? I have an ambivalent relationship with cockroaches. When I was in the Navy, I didn’t really li…

[image] nathantaylor: I also have to ask, would you feel the same way if someone pinned a cockroach from an infestation you had in your house? How is a cockroach any less important than a butterfly? My mom said I used to cry when she or my grandma would kill the roaches in my house

Fleas, ticks, chiggers, leeches, tapeworms, and mosquitos all also have central nervous systems. Cockroaches were just an example I had off the top of my head.

I think we’re getting off topic here, delving into existential matters that could probably fill books. I don’t think humans have any idea how other life forms perceive and interact with the world around them, and that’s all I will say about the topic, although I could rattle on about it for days. In…

In grade school I was known for saving the worms that were on the playground. Apparently I beat up a short fourth grader when I was in third grade, because he smashed all of the butterflies that the kindergarten class at my school had raised, and just released. I don’t remember doing that though. …

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My mom said I used to cry when she or my grandma would kill the roaches in my house

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