is it wrong to kill flies?

Answer 1

Listen, do you know that i have a memory from my childhood, there was a man called "Stern" (his surname), i believe that General San Martin (an argentine general from s.XIX, who gave freedom to Argentina, Chile and Peru by means of his militar campaigns) told to his daughter the phrase created by that guy, Stern. It seems that he opened the window to let a fly go out of the house, avoiding to kill the insect, ans said while doing this : "Go, poor animal, world is too big for both of us". (or "for us two").

I ve never forgotten this way of acting of that guy Stern, and i try to avoid killing flies. Perhaps i don t do the same regarding spiders, because these last ones i´am afraid of.

I don t say that it is wrong to kill flies, but why killing them if one has the opportunity to set them free?

Answer 2

I don't enjoy killing anything and any wasps and flies in the house, I try to get out peaceably. After 10 minutes though, out comes the fly spray.
Killing them with regret and as a last option is the way to go, for flies and insects are the Earth's cleaning system, but I think are more robotic in nature than sentient, living to perform a simple program.

Bottom line is: if you MUST kill anything, always do it with sadness and regret. That way you have shown love and respect for the hapless deceased.

Love andLight
M

Answer 3

Flies-yes, mosquitos, no. Everybody knows how a fly sits & cleans it legs non-stop. It is very much a living being. It is too cold hearted to kill a real fly.

Mosquitos & the like, be gone with them all because they bite us. Flies don't bite, so there's no sense in killing them- better to just shoo them out the door.

Its like the symbiotic relationship you learned about as a kid- flies cause no real harm. Mosquitos do, so they have to go!

Answer 4

Equally wrong as killing a human. Both are organism systems consisting of some carbon, some oxygen, some this and that. They all have their own purposes. It is considered wrong to kill a human being because the would-be deceased could be a vital contribution to the lives of many. You could also not know that killing a fly would also have a similar (or even greater) effect (research: the Butterfly Effect, Chaos Theory); so NO in a short-term explanation, but possibly yes in the long run. Who knows? No one other than the universe itself heh.

Answer 5

Do you think it is okay to kill a fly because they do not communicate on the same level that humans do?

Just because they do not speak to us, does not mean that they are not living, breathing things. Would you not feel regret in killing a person?

Why? Why do you feel regret for killing a human but not a fly? Because flies are "lesser than man"? By whose standards?

Flies still live... and breath.

Answer 6

What are the poor swallows going to eat then if you kill all the flies?

Answer 7

No ... they carry disease. Most other insects, spiders etc. I carry outside & set free, but not flies (or mosquitoes).

I suppose it would only be considered wrong by extreme animal rights people or perhaps people that believe that humans might be re-incarnated as flies.

Answer 8

some places where ever you step your gonna kill something under foot can't be helped aslong as you walk . lots of flies included

Answer 9

Yes, Flies feeL pain, why wouLd that not be wrong?

Answer 10

A fly was actually bothering me and I was thinking whether to catch it or not but I remembered that no life even that of an insect should be taken away.....and it stopped flying around