Compassion and empathy do not rely on someone else’s value to you, so instead of having “compassion” for bugs only because they serve a purpose in the ecosystem you rely on you, think about how they are living their life and having their own unique experience of the world, the same way your friends do.
I have none of those traits but I do love to watch tiny little critters going along doing their thing without a care in the world. Except for the invasive ones and the parasites.
19 Comments
fonix232@fedia.io · 23 pts · 40d
As a software engineer I have to say... Nope, bugs must go.
Zarobi@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 40d
Bugs can live outside. Not indoors in my production code. Don't ask where "outside" is in this metaphor.
bratorange@feddit.org · 13 pts · 40d
As a software dev I don’t call them bugs. Just happy little accidents.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 40d
Happy little features
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 11 pts · 40d
You stay out of my bed and I stay out of your bed, is the deal. They can take it or get thrown out.
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 40d
Agreed. You vibing around me? We're chill. Land on my face at 3am? All bets are off.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 40d
I think some think your bed is their bed as well..
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 4 pts · 40d
I am leftist, but I draw the line of interspecies communal property at my bed.
schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 40d
I have a deal with the ants in my garden. I get to grow vegetables on their land, they get part of the vegetables and don't destroy everything.
Saapas@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 40d
I have zero empathy for bugs after Buenos Aires. THE ONLY GOOD BUG, IS A DEAD BUG
lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 40d
Compassion and empathy do not rely on someone else’s value to you, so instead of having “compassion” for bugs only because they serve a purpose in the ecosystem you rely on you, think about how they are living their life and having their own unique experience of the world, the same way your friends do.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 7 pts · 40d
Do mosquitoes count as bugs?
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 40d
I have none of those traits but I do love to watch tiny little critters going along doing their thing without a care in the world. Except for the invasive ones and the parasites.
xxxb@feddit.org · 4 pts · 40d
me initially assuming it's about programming
protist@retrofed.com · 4 pts · 40d
Insects are my homies
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 2 pts · 40d
I like the way worms make fertiliser
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 40d
The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own.
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 40d
Is that really true of insects? I'd go out on a limb and that the way they experience pain is different from a mammal.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 40d
Okay, but I didn't say pain. Is body pain the only thing that makes you experience suffering?