Killing

[Abaddon]

What have you killed in your life?

Why?

Was it justifiable? Do you regret it?




We all must have killed things, so lets stay sensible and talk about things above the usual human sensitivity level (killing bacteria for example, or stepping on a flower)


I bring this thread due to recent events.

Firstly, I have killed several sheep. By slitting their throats, cracking their neck.. and then skinning/preparing their carcass. My fingers actually slightly smell of raw meat right now...

I did not kill the possam. Today i found a possam asleep on the grass. I poked it with my foot. I know they are a pest. It was rather dopey.. i knew it must be ill, so didn't see the reason to kill it. My workmate got mad at me (it had started to slink off now) got his gun out and shot it. Apparently it was dying of TB.. an could have passed it onto our cattle.

 

[Tee Kay]

I haven't personally killed anything bigger than a spider so far, as far as I can remember.

 

[Dachs]

I killed taillesskangaru a few minutes ago. I kinda feel bad about it.

 

[Mise]

Spiders are pretty much the biggest thing I've killed too.

 

[Tani Coyote]

I haven't killed anything besides bugs...

...I did once "torture" a rather massive spider, however.

How so?

Well, I was staying at my brother's house, and he and my sister-in-law live near a swamp, so naturally they have bug issues. I went to sleep... but I got bored so I got back up to use the computer... their light is made so you have to manually plug it in to turn it on and such.

...So I turn on the light, and a few inches from my hand is a massive spider. I scream like a girl, then run for a candle-holding glass my mother had bought for them and put it over the spider.

I could have stopped there, but I didn't. I was afraid of lifting the glass to just outright crush it, so I did a far more slow and steady course... I would lift the glass a little... and when the spider attempted to run out... I would bring the glass back down on one of it's legs and well... umm... funny thing. Sliding the glass grinds the leg and... well, you can tell what happened.

Eventually, it was pretty much legless, and after that, I crushed it. I'm a pansy, and should have dueled it to the death from the very beginning, I know.

From a humane perspective, I probably should have crushed it immediately rather than "torturing" it as my grandma put it(funny enough, she's hard right except on environmental and animal rights issues), but alas, I did not... at the very least, I can gain solace in the fact it probably couldn't feel or comprehend the pain.

I don't really hold spiders up to the same standard as humans, however. Hence why I'm willing to kill them without a second thought. Should "torture" be no different? Can a spider or bug even comprehend the pain? Probably could have been different, but... it wasn't. What can you do?

I've never killed anything far more sentient, though one time - December 31st of 2009, actually - these neighbors of ours killed some coyotes and were SKINNING them right in the front yard, in clear sight! Sure it was nighttime, but still... barbarians.

 

[Brighteye]

Rats in the laboratory. They're cute and fluffy and it's a bit of a shame to kill them.
Rats in the woods. They're unkempt and smelly and I wish I could have got more of the skittering little pests. Sadly trying to beat them with a stick isn't the most efficient way of doing it. They're tough!

Oh, and lobsters, which we put into the pot live. We called them Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. I think that Flopsy was the last to go.

 

[Mise]

Oh, I suppose I've killed mice/rats through traps and poison, though that wasn't me actually physically doing the killings.

 

[Abaddon]

If anyone says a certain variety of dinosaur, with a sword.. i'd have to call BS on them unless they were one specific poster...

 

[Camikaze]

I feel bad killing spiders and cockroaches. I usually just trap them in some plastic container and throw them outside. Although I have killed smaller insects (such as mosquitoes) on occasion.

 

[J-man]

I'va a cat, she has killed a LOT of mice and birds. I didn't kill them but she is my cat, does that make me responsible.

 

[Cheetah]

Bugs, spiders, snails and once a snake. Oh, and fish, crabs and a lobster of course. I think that's about it. Never did go hunting.

Don't have any problem with killing things as long as there is sufficient reason. Bugs, spiders and such are troublesome when inside the house so they are killed. Snails are not good in the garden, and are killed. The snake was to close to me, my cabin and my lawnmower, so it died as well.
Fish, crabs and lobsters are used for food, so they are killed as well. Though I don't really like the idea that we put crabs and lobsters into boiling water alive...

I'm in general against inflicting unnecessary pain, so I avoid torture as much as possible. Preferable I can make the kill quick and painlessly.

 

[nc-1701]

I've killed a wide variety of insects from killing scorpions and spiders in my house, to more targeted destruction of entire nests of yellow jacks, wasps, and fire ants. However I have never intentionally killed anything larger than an insect, though I did hit a small rabbit with my car once.
I've also popped rattlesnakes with a paintball gun, but it fled and and I didn't try to chase so that doesn't account for a kill, it was really big though.

 

[Leifmk]

An awful lot of fish, either ones I've caught while fishing, or (assembly-line style) when I used to have summer jobs at a local fish farm.

Also every so often I have to mercykill small birds and rodents that our cats have injured.

That's about it, I guess.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I've killed a thread before. It was an accident. I felt bad for weeks afterwards

 

[holy king]

it gets easier every time, virote.

 

[azzaman333]

I get other people to do the killing for me.

 

[IAM]

I have killed quite a few things. Use to have a farm with rabbits, goats, chickens, fish pond, cats, dogs, etc. Sometimes a mercy kill like when a fox had taken a big bite out of a chicken but the hen wasn't dead yet. Sometimes killed a predator that was after my critters. Some critters because they became a threat to the kids. One of the Billy goats got aggressive and kept getting out of the penned area trying to head butt everyone. I felt that was too dangerous to have around small children so I blew it's brains out. I don't regret killing anything I have killed. Should have killed more but I don't like having to put a good animal down that is wounded and dieing. It's just something you have to do. And of course there's obvious reasons like for food.

 

[Cutlass]

Various insects, rodents, fish. That's about it.

 

[Brighteye]

I'm pretty sure that I've killed a lot of Chinese people by pressing big red buttons presented to me by aliens, too.
But that doesn't really count as killing.

 

[IAM]

If you buy meat in a grocery store isn't that paying for murder?