Am I a bad person?

Question

I have, in my lifetime, tortured many insects. I have caught wasps under a pint glass in a beer garden and seen how long they survive with a smoking cigarette end in there and also burt ants etc with a magnifying glass. I quite like animals but insects annoy me and I like to kill them!

Not sure exactly how they die. Takes around a minute though. And doesn't look too enjoyable (for them).

OK so Bhuddism's out of the question.....which religions actively encourage burning ants and suffocating wasps? Thats probably quite a specialist one...im not expecting too many suggestions

Jeez you're all a bunch of hippies. Since when did hippies start getting computers...I thought you were supposed to live in fields chained to trees?

Answer 1

i have heard that if you give ants dry custard powder that it expands inside them from the moisture and then they explode. does that make me more bad?!

Answer 2

Some creatures are pesty or dangerous and
so it's a matter of safety or survival to kill them.

Killing any creature should be done as quickly
and painlessly as possible.

It's not so much that you kill something that strikes
me as problematic, but that you take pleasure
in torturing them.

It's odd that you have to *ask whether that makes
you a bad person. If you were well adjusted and
healthily empathic, you'd realize that inflicting
torture on any living thing is not quite ok.

There's a short story by, if I recall correctly, Victor
Hugo (well a French author of that ilk anyway )- about this.
He is someone who is enchanted by a woman until, during a picnic, she starts leisurely pulling the wings or legs off a mosquito (or was it a fly? whatever) - anyway it quite cures him of being in love with her. His little essay was a study in
human character. The idea is perhaps that anyone, no
matter how outwardly attractive, who can be cruel in
small ways has a major flaw. Perhaps you should read it and
reflect on it. You can decide to be different.

Answer 3

You are not a bad person. What you are doing is bad.
You are an injured person. What you are doing also injures.

Your imposition of inflicting suffering on anything is the outward symptom of the injury you feel on the inside. Inflicting pain and suffering on other things will not help you to heal the internal pain and upset that you feel. You must first heal yourself and the symptom that you express on the outside will go away.

I do hope that you will work on that since those things innocent of you do not deserve the burden of pain from which you, too, are suffering.

Answer 4

I don't think you'd be a bad person if you killed an animal that posed a threat to you. Many years ago, I went camping in Madagascar and there were many mosquitoes in my tent. Like some of my companions, I tried to squash as many as possible, just in case one of them attacked me.

If I had tortured them for fun, that would be different and you're statement "I quite like animals" would have a hollow ring to it.

Torturing animals is not a good thing, but, like all of us, it is a fault. Nobody's perfect and I hope that your good points outweigh your bad points. As you show some concern about the animals you torture, it indicates that you are not a bad person.

Answer 5

Heigh ho ! Who is there ?
No one but me, my dear.
Please come say, How do ?
The things I'll give to you.
By stroke as gentle as a feather
I'll catch a rainbow from the sky
And tie the ends together.


Heigh ho ! I am here
Am I not young and fair ?
Please come say, How do ?
The things I'll show to you.
Would you have a wond'rous sight
The midday sun at midnight ?
Fair maid, white and red,
Comb you smooth and stroke your head
How a maid can milk a bull !
And every stroke a bucketful.

Summer is icumen in
Loudly sing Cuckoo
Grows the seed and blows the mead
And springs the wood anew.
Sing Cuckoo!


Ewe bleats harshly after lamb
Cows after calves make moo
Bullock stamps and deer champs
Now shrilly sing Cuckoo ...
... Cuckoo ... Cuckoo.
Wild bird are you ! Be never still Cuckoo !

Answer 6

Certainly you are!
Every living creature needs to be treated humanely. If those small creatures keep on annoying you, ok, you have the reason to get rid of them especially if they can be potentially harmful. However, you should at least eliminate them in a more gentler manner. Burning with cigarettes? That is quite a great torture. If you need to get rid of any of those creatures, kill them without making them to suffer.

Answer 7

While your behavior maybe approved of by many, torturing insects, indeed any living thing, constitutes cruelty. I personally would not associated with a person that has your character traits. You do not seem to know the meaning of life.

Short answer, yes.

Answer 8

you may go to hell,
i hate spiders to France and back, so much so that whenever i catch one in my room the one thing i want to do is torture it, but as soon as i do even a tiny bit i feel a huge rush of bad karma run through my body like a disease, you cant feel that because either you are so used to it that you think its normal, or you are doomed for life and karma thinks thats bad enough

peace

Answer 9

You're not such a bad person it;s just that you haven't enough knowledge of them to understand the insects,but you will grow out of your habits.

Answer 10

I don't think they feel much pain, but it's kinda the principle

plus your're ruining the food chain O.J.

Answer 11

Since you have started self-evaluating, pl consult a good Doctor/psychiatrist,who may help you