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Originally Posted by bouncer
It's deluxe how we all don't think twice about killing a mosquito yet most of us wouldn't kill a deer.
I mean, we have a bunch of watermelons growing in our garden. They're the best damn watermelons I've ever tasted, but the deer have been eating them in the night. So, they're a pest to me. Should I kill them? (knowing that I would not recieve a fine or jail time for it).
Where do we draw the line? Whether they have a thorax or if they're over 5 cm tall.
I don't know, just rambling.
I've sprayed diesel fuel on a spider. It killed it fairly quickly.
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Actually, it has to do with if the animals are actually causing us any discomfort. I am NOT comfortable with a spider in my house, or any other insect for that matter. They freak me out, and they actually scare me if they are crawling on me. So I kill them to stop them.
My mom is terrified of mice and lizards. She'll kill one of those in an instant if she gets the chance. And if a deer was eating stuff in our garden, my dad would kill it, despite the fact of laws...because where we live no one would ever know.
And the reason that there are laws prohibiting the killing of deer in the first place is that they are much less of them in the world then things like spiders and misquito's. If you were allowed to kill them any time you want, their species would hang in the balance. No one is worried about insects because there are so many of them.
Insects are just unlucky because they scare people.
But if someone was afraid of a deer, I'm willing to bet they would kill it if it got to close. (and they had a gun) Just like I wouldnt kill a spider just for the sake of killing it. I would just kill it if it was in my house or on me.