Why are insects and other small creatures the subject of so much hatred?

[ucciolord1]

Because they're so.... scary.....
*shiver*

 

[Brad Shepard]

you dont bother me, i wont bother you, thats what i think, unless your bigger then my first, then your going to die. (talking about bugs of corse)

 

[bobknowsall]

EDIT: Just to make it clear, I'm not against killing them, I'm against killing them purely out of laziness or cruelty.

I'm quite curious as to how you can kill something out of laziness, but okay.

OT: Because I don't want to be sharing my living space with small crawly things. Or big crawly things, for that matter. I will leave bees alone because they're kind of cute in a big, dopey way, but other insects will die if they enter my house. They're pests, and pests are to be eradicated or removed. (Spiders are handy, though, so I'll leave the ones that make themselves scarce alone.)

 

[HeySeansOnline]

Spoiler: -snip-

1- not everyone knows what spiders are dangerous. its just safer to group all of them as dangerous and not take chances.

2- i kill most all bugs to keep them from eating my plants. that's where my food comes from.

3- if no one killed insects they would over populate and become uncontrollable.

4- have you ever had a ant problem or even a termite problem. that's not safe or sanitary.

5- it can be fun! go out side with a magnifying glass and burn a few. its sadistic but fun!

6- i are superior there for it must die!

7- that's how many i killed writing this post.

Just to clarify, I'm against killing them out of laziness or cruelty. If there's an actual point to killing them aside from those, then I'm generally ok with it.

Assuming (6) and (7) are jokes, the only one out of those I really disagree with is (5). (1) bothers me, but I can see how it might be necessary.

-snip-

I do understand if you have a phobia of them. I have a phobia of my own, so I know what it feels like. I still disagree with just killing them, but I can understand. (Unless that phobia was a joke. The story seems to say it might be, but I'm not sure how much of that you were serious about.)

Although whether or not they came back would probably depend on what sort of lifestyle they led. A spider doesn't seem likely to come back to me as it just eats other insects. Wasps and flies might I guess, but I don't think that's ever happened to any of the ones I released. The flies always seemed to be trying to leave anyway, and I never notice wasps returning when I release them. In fact, unless I'm forgetting something, the only things I can really think of that's likely to come back in greater numbers are ants.

And hey, if the creatures I release get eaten, at least there was a real point to the death.

Joke, No, I have a serious fear of them that for a while affected my daily life at home, had these real nastie red ones with like 20 legs that crawled up into wall corners, I would either leave, or assault It with a mixture of poison and brute force, even once faught off a barrage of ants with two rules, the bendy ones, I'm not joking either. I will freeze up at a june bug, but will play with a snake or lizard, even maybe a rat, maybe It's the goop, the fact that death isn't easy for them, I don't know, I do know I hate them.

 

[Deleted]

They terrify me because of their legs.

If its got more than 4 then GET IT THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. More legs=morescare. The feeling of it crawling across my skin is much scarier than any poisonous bites they might have.

Tarantulas are cool though because they're fuzzy and not scaly which is a prime factor in this terrifyingness.

I fucking DARE you to let this crawl on you.

 

[komodomantis]

I kill ants because I don't trust them. I've heard scientists call a group of ants "like a super-being" due to the hive mind and I have watched too many Sci-fi movies to let a super-being live while its still weak.

 

[monkey_man]

To keep up the flow FUCK WASPS

i'll explain :
they traumatised me in a rollercoaster
it was the first time i was allowed in the biggest rollercoater of a nearby Sixflags (now walaby world or something)and i was around 7 or 8.
a wasp stung me, in my neck, at the start of the ride.
(that wasn't too bad, it just wasn't pleasant)
but i found the SAME wasp 60 minutes later IN MY SHIRT!
it scared the hell out of me (knowing it crawled there for that long)
now they terrify me, along with all of them flying small ugly F*ckers
so they die, i don't care about "putting them outside" i make them suffer if they enter my room/house because one of them made me suffer.

i kill them because they burnt our crops pillaged our village raped our women and poisoned our wells.

they do? *freaks out**mumbles* they can't find me here, they can't find me here, they can't find me here, they can't find me here*mumbles*
another reason to hate them

I was mountain biking and found myself on top of a wasps nest that my brother had disturbed on his way past. At least 30 stings, and a 20 foot drop into a river(which turned out to be about 4 inches deep)later, I don't react well when a wasp is near me. Being in the woods, I had to walk myself a half mile out to where the paramedics could find me...sucked. Similiarly to your story, one flew out when I was taking my clothes off at the hospital too...I freaked.

man... your story makes me kinda sad... that was truly a bad thing.
it made my story look like eating icecream.. , or playing on a computer
we need to stop wasps from attacking humans! they must be exterminated Or they have to find out a way to scare the hell out of them with a special noise, so they leave in panic!
btw, do you still like your brother after this happened?

It was an accident, a below ground nest...he couldn't have seen it.
I guess that I was trespassing(accidently), and the wasps just overreacted. Maybe because I'm not a wasp too...racists.

another reason to hate them; they hate everything that isn't wasps
why are they still alive? do they surve a purpose?