Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:14:27 -0400
From: "Sean Gallagher" <sean-AT-iwkbaltlab.com>
Subject: Re: a question about ants (their life, their death, their right


I'd gladly accept ants into my community, if they'd only eliminate these damn
cockroaches I keep finding drinking from my leaky faucets. . .

"Brian J. Callahan" wrote:

> Marius muses:
> >phase of life... and for these little insects did move before being attacked
> >by human beings and quite looked like dead bugs afterwards (u know, we did
> >increase our dissectional abilities with bugs, too, in school...), so, were
> >this bugs little robots? animations? Or do insects not count as animals and
> >therefore do not have any rights, like plants do not have any rights... does
> >this mean ants and every other bug does not feel anything? (well, I've read
> >once a fascinating story from this perry rodan thingy... ...).. or is it
> >just because these animals are that small and do not remind us of ourselves
> >that we can't take them for serious and so on do our terrible ant-pogroms
> >with 'em?
>
> Well, I, for one, have recently started a pogrom against ants.  Somehow,
> these big carpenter ants were getting into my bathroom. I squashed several
> and sprayed some RAID around.  When I got home last Thursday night, they were
> all over the bathroom...even going up and down the shower curtain.   I went
> to the store and bought every kind of ant/bug killing chemical I could find.
> I saturated that bathroom --floors, walls, ceiling, window frame...I think I
> killed a number of brain cells--I don't remember 1982-985 anymore, but they
> were Reagan years anyway--but I got the little buggers.  Haven't seen one
> since.  All in all, a successful insectoid cleansing.   I don't care if it
> hurt the little ants.  Were they able to plot revenge, I might have
> reconsidered.