They don’t have a brain really and kinda just float there. Do they even feel pain?

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    11 year ago

    If the spider is in your home without consent I support trapping it and kicking it out.

    If the spider or mosquito is trying to bite you, then I support your self defense actions much like if a human was trying to bite your arm you’d be in the right to use force.

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      Even in your examples you are treating animals as less than human. Why? Again, where is the line that involuntary trespassing is punishable by immediate death? If a person bit you, yeah you could fight them off and use force. But, to be compare fairly, you would have to kill the person that bit you. Even then this is still an unfair argument because

      1. That is not typical human behavior
      2. A human bite can do substantially more damage than a mosquito bite.

      So tell me where you can treat animals ethically identically as humans, and where you can’t. Where is the line?