Do you think it's immoral to step on bugs?

...did anybody complained on it ? No ? no functional worries then...
...internally, is there any good reason why you should do otherwise ? No ? ...again no functional worries then...(Morality as a judgement is always centred into a "visual range" of reference)

...and this was tagged "philosophy"? Oh my, I wonder what Nietsche would say to such utter trivial nonsense

You're definitely not a Janist.

Imagine Sigmund Froid then...lol

"Froid"(Portuguese for phonetic purposes) it correctly spells Sigmund Freud, my apologies CJ !

I suppose it depends upon why you are doing it.

If you enjoy exercising the power of life and death over other creatures, I would suggest that it doesn't speak well of you.

Doesn't make you a monster, just something of a jerk.

Are you trying to bug the topic starter?

...and I thinking the very topic was a "bug" in the system...

Dont step on bugs!!!!!!!!!!!!! If there is one thing i have have learned about religious contemplations, its that we will never have the answers, so if we cant prove what is right or wrong it is safe to say all ideas of religion are right and wrong. So if the idea of reincarnation is right or wrong then it too may be right, So bugs in your house right now could be a reincarnation of someone who just wants to watch you in your life, maybe that fly is your grandfather checkin up on you, dont be creeped out by the form is was given, just let him check up on you, If you notice, bugs dont hang around very long anyways, so let them do there thing for an hour or so and they will leave.

I'm not either, but I do have Janist tendancies.

I go out of my way not to knowingly step on a living thing.
I do think what the OP is doing is very childish.

Now, if bug is doing me or my pets harm (i.e. a flea) I will kill them. However, I don't understand (well, I do actually, just an expression in this case) why someone feels they need/want to kill something when it's simply going about its life.

A few years ago I was at a garden center, and the woman in front of me at the checkout had a bunch of plants on a flatbed cart.
I saw a little lizard hop off on of the plants, and perch on the end of the cart.

I said to her, "Look, it's that a pretty lizard?" I was kind of bent over looking at it closer.
She did say a word or hesitate, just reach out her foot and smeared it over the cart.

Since I was bent closer, it really disgusted me. Especially how she could just do that. Why?

I asked her "Why did you do that?!" She just said "I don't know."

That's the problem, we don't think about what we do.

Yes, I think it's immoral, in that if one can do this, they can more easily be unmindful about other things.

If I unearth one of those huge grubs in the garden, I toss it toward the birds. I do feel badly about that, I will confess.

better the birds to eat it, than to have those hellish moles dig up your yard trying to eat them...


Ida been hard pressed not to call her a bad name. I like lizards a lot...

like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqTwSO1DDc

(tvma)

We tend to think of bugs as pretty insignificant beings, but the bottom line is that what you are doing is wanton killing. If there is no reason to kill the bugs, then why do it? No matter how small they are, they are living things, and intentionally killing them for no reason is inconsiderate and disrespectful.

If she had done that in Spain she would have got an earful. Lizards kill bugs, and for that reason they are very well loved by most people who think it is more comfortable to enjoy and afternoon in the sun without too many bugs pestering them.

But I also often see people killing small animals who just happen to cross their path, and when asked why they did it they have no answer. To me that suggests immaturity and mindlessness that we would do well to rise above.

I confess, I kill every mosquito I can.
Everything else is live and let live. I too have a soft spot for lizards. I picked one up once, broke the little fella's tail. I still feel bad about that...

...had it occurred to you that people might just be training their accuracy ?
...aim, set, step on it ! he he he !

Don't feel bad about it, lizards snap their tails off to escape preditors. He'll grow another.

I rescue bugs from the pool daily. But not wasps, because they nest too near the residents. I moved a snail off the walk yesterday.

shhhh...lie about it...I never would confess such a thing...