At least in very dramatic extremes, yes there’s at least a correlation between horrific animal abuse and psychopathy.
No idea if that extends to more run of the mill actions.
Even everyone is a psychopath, no one is.
Serial killers often start out by torturing and killing animals in childhood.
I kill bugs all over the place. Only a matter of time before I take my neighbor out.
No but seriously, the torturing animals thing is a big sign.
“Killing destroys the root of compassion”
— buddha
I’m pretty sure my opinion on mosquitoes does not reflect my attitude or behavior towards humans.
I agree
I feel bad about killing them out of the blue, but sometimes they’re really asking for it
I don’t like fishing.
It’s not because “eww, worms” or “eww, fish”. It’s two things. The big thing is, I don’t want to hurt some small animal like a worm or bait fish, just so that I can hurt some other animal by dragging them into an environment where they can’t breathe. Oh, but the humane thing to do is toss them back? Imagine being pulled out of an airlock into the vacuum of space, photographed, measured, and then put back in the airlock? I don’t need to do all of that to some critter just for fun. Which brings me to the second thing about fishing that I don’t like : It’s not fun. It’s boring. It’s so boring. Just stand here and hope a fish eventually bites.
The fun in fishing is that you get to just sit there, have a beer, and turn your brain off. There really isn’t an expectation to be super busy while fishing. If you have a busy lifestyle, then an occasional “turn your brain off” is super nice.
There are a bunch of other ways to do that without hurting animals too, though.
This is why I hate fishing
I mean, I feel horrible when I kill innocent NPCs in video games.
I had to stop playing a recent BG3 save where I was trying a character who sometimes randomly kills people.
No. Bugs can get fucked.
I teach my kids not to kill bugs unless they are doing something bad or dangerous, otherwise just move them.
Killing things should not be a default action for convenience sake.
Live with roaches once. You’ll change your mind.
Tbf, roaches I feel would be covered under his “bad or dangerous” clause.
I’ve picked up wolf spiders before, but if there is a black widow inside I’ll smash it. Can’t risk them harming me or the ones I look after.
I’m no expert in bug identification. More legs = worse
Idk man, a lot of sea bugs have more leg and I want them in my mouth.
That’s because salt and enough real competition for them to evolve meat!
Yeah, roaches get squished.
Existing too close to me with that many legs is a crime.
Spiders eat mosquitoes and centipedes eat roaches, you do barely any work all day and contribute nothing back to society. Which one deserves being squished?
The other day my coworkers and I made literally 5 million wrappers for dum dum suckers in 2 hours. Suck it.
You eat Twinkies and your mom eats you. Which deserves to be squished?
Including ladybugs?
No, they’re ok unless there’s way too many and even then I dont super mine them.
Point proven.
Y’all think you’re above the ick while you’re going around trying to drag people down.
Oh you’re a zoomer. That explains it.
Nope. You seem to like deciding things about people. Try playing your own character. Ohhh right, your character is shit. I bet it’s got an edgy backstory too.
Oh you’re older? And you act that way? That’s worse.
What way? Using the word “ick” seems to have triggered you. Maybe you mean the bug squishing? If they come too close, they are my problem, not yours. Live with roaches once. You’ll change your mind.
By you maybe
A lot of serial killers were cruel to animals when they were young.
Isn’t dehumanization a tool to allow mass cruelty towards people?
First humans started to treat animals bad.
Later they started to treat other humans ‘like animals’.
