Question #25 from "The Book of Questions" by Gregory Stock, PH.D.
For an All-Expenses-Paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off it's wings?
What about stepping on a cockroach?
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Yes to both (although I prefer not to pull the wings off the flutterby) - the hit to my karma would be more than made up by the great vacation
Okay ... here is how messed-up I am ... I would NOT pull off the butterfly's wings .... that is a deliberate act of cruelty and the butterfly doesn't die immediately. It's like torture ... and I won't do it. Now I've had dozens of dead butterflies in the frint grill of my car over the years ... would any of them count??
On the other hand ... I WOULD step on a cockroach (although I detest the sound that makes and how it feels). I detest cockroachs even more ... and I would love the vacation.
So ... I refuse to torture something beautiful for my own personal gain, but I will smash something ugly .... what does that say about me??
I would step on the cockroach. They have survived billions and billions of years, and they are leagion. What's one in the dustbin? I would not pull then wings off a butterfly. Just the way I am.
No and yes. As I am desperately trying to increase the population of butterflies in this world, I could not then turn and destroy the creature. However, I routinely act in an agressive mode to reduce the population of cockroaches when I come in contact with them. I would step on one in a New York Minute. In other words, I would not change my mode of behavior for some perceived benefit.
my family thanks you for not ripping our wings off, lol. (well, except for Tom anyway) um, Tom?
i know it is not my most shining moment, but i would step on the cockroach...there is a history there. i lived in an apartment building that was totally infested with them. snasty snasty bugs. got inside my popcorn popper, my answering machine, had to throw everything out when i moved. it was foul.
one little addition though...i wouldn't pull the legs of a cockroach. torture of any living thing is beyond the pale. it would have to be a quick smoosh
Anyone who would ask me to pull the wings off a butterfly most likely won't actually come thru with the vacation...so I'd say, "thanks for asking, but no..."
As for killing cockroaches, if an all expense paid vacation is the reward, then I've found my new career!
I wouldn't pull the wings off a butterfly -- couldn't enjoy the vacation for thinking about it if I did that. I could and would stomp on a cockroach vacation or not.
No way would I hurt a beautiful butterfly in any way.
The cockroach -- well, maybe. A fly - yes. SWAT !!!
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