Immediately stomp an insect when they see one inside the house. It's like a reflex or impulse and honestly it's kinda scary seeing an otherwise nice person just stomp an insect or spider or whatever in cold blood almost instantaneously. There's like no thought or contemplation, it's just see the insect, and then immediately stomp it.
Like holy shit what did that little critter do to you? Just let it be.
EDIT: Holy fuck the responses. I guess many didn't actually read what I wrote. I wrote that people who "immediately stomp" without "thought or contemplation" have fash tendencies and I get accused of fashjacketing. Ugh whatever. To those who had thoughtful responses (e.g. if you feel something stinging your skin and swat it with your hand, or if you have an infestation issue in your house, etc.), I gotta say those make sense and I hear you all the way (and even in those cases it's not like there's a kneejerk intentional kill response, it's usually accidental or done after careful deliberation). But to the ones complaining about fashjacketing, maybe do some self crit for fuck's sake. You sound exactly like the fucking man vs bear defender types or a white fragility type, Jesus... It makes me actually think you do have fash tendencies tbh.
I agree. It's low key and normalized to hell and back, but killing small animals for no reason is fucked up and bugs are the smallest animals out there. It shouldn't need to be a mammal megafauna that we've domesticated or something that resembles that to deserve to live. What lives or dies shouldn't be based on your ability to anthromorphize something. You don't have to like bugs, I'd advise learning more about em cause they're pretty fucking cool, but you do need to live in peace with them, cause otherwise I do see you as a bloodthirsty toddler.
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If the bug started it, then it's fine. There's no non lethal way of solving that. Same with potential infestations or whatever other threats bugs can sometimes cause. That's self defense. Killing all small arthropods just cause that's what they are and it's easy to do is where I've got issues. If there's a threat to you, your food or your domicile, the war is on. Otherwise, leave them alone.