to pull the wings off a butterfly or to stomp on a cockroach? Why is one different from the other?
2006-08-06 11:55:04 · 32 answers · asked by twinks 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Interesting...some of you even consider one a 'humane' death. How come the ugly creature has less value...what if it was pulling the wings off a fly and roasting a cockroach...does that change the equations??
2006-08-06 12:02:28 · update #1
Pulling the wings off the butterfly - without the wings, the butterfly cannot survive, but it won't die right away either. Stomping a cockroach would kill it quickly.
I suppose in many people's eyes it would be different because butterflies are pretty and cockroaches are not, but I think that it comes down to the suffering you cause.
2006-08-06 11:59:54 · answer #1 · answered by amarie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pulling the wing off of the butterfly. The cockroach is out of it's misery. The butterfly suffers.
2006-08-06 12:01:00 · answer #2 · answered by hagren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither is good from the insect's point of view. This is a value judgment.
We value beauty, and the butterfly is considered beautiful and graceful - He doesn't fly, he flutters. And he adds to his beauty by staying out of our way and out of our homes.
The cockroach is considered ugly. He scurries around in the dark like the bottom-feeder he is. But he tries to stay out of our way too - he comes out when it's dark and hides in the light.
If butterflies started travelling in packs, living in our homes, and eating our food I bet we would spray them with the same stuff we use on the cockroaches. Look at the way we treat moths - MOTHBALLS.
What if butterflies ate money? Or only flew near people when the people were lying? Or caused cancer? We would declare nuclear war on them. And it would be judged as the right thing to do.
2006-08-06 12:14:31 · answer #3 · answered by Andrea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cockroach is considered a pest. Stomping on it would be a quick and painless death compared to pulling its wings off. A butterfly never hurts you and most likely does not invade your house, it is gentle, beautiful, and harmless.
2006-08-06 11:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by cartmansmom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pullng the wings is worse. Butterflies don't do anything, they are just inproving the site of nature, cockroaches are ugly and annoying and have a lot of bad stuff inside them
and a butterfly wouls suffer its like ripping or just a short death,
cockroches are disgusting i hate them/
2006-08-06 12:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by rawrTOyou 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're both just as bad. Some cultures believe butterflies to be linked to or have some supernatural purpose. Torturing it would definately have to be somewhere on the bad karma list.
As for cockroaches. Well, we all know that within the next millenium, their evolved bretheren will decend from the stars and begin their reign on this mud ball. I mean it's not like we can kill them with nukes, right? I for one don't want to be on the receiving end of "you're charged with slaughtering numerous members of our species. How do you plead?"
2006-08-06 12:05:30 · answer #6 · answered by mak 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The butterfly wings because that is fatal, but not immediately so. Plus, a butterfly serves a productive role as a pollinator, while a roach spreads disease and is not welcome in human activities. Both are living things, but the act of torture is far less humane than a nearly instantaneous death.
2006-08-06 12:00:27 · answer #7 · answered by But why is the rum always gone? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to pull the wings off a butterfly! Because butterflies aren't don't annoy the @#$* out of everything and everybody like some creepy crawly things!
2006-08-06 11:59:47 · answer #8 · answered by NO! SERIOUSLY! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well to the pull the wings off a butterfly u actually have 2 touch it
2006-08-06 11:59:30 · answer #9 · answered by sexy-babbie_101 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pulling wings off a butterfly would be more torture, considering they will die a long slow death. Stomping on a crockroach would be quick and probably painless.
2006-08-06 11:58:45 · answer #10 · answered by itsasecret 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋