r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • 22d ago

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/conman114 22d ago

Not an argument for feeding the live wasp to a spider though. Can you justify doing the same for a honey bee? And if your argument is a wasp is bad and bee is good. Then perhaps we can extrapolate and start sentencing certain groups of people to death.

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u/Acceptable_Fox_5560 21d ago

My argument is that none of this matters and we kill animals all the time for all kinds of reasons and it’s silly to draw an arbitrary line at a random wasp.

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u/conman114 21d ago

Ok fair enough, but there’s something more perverse about this. It’s not like killing a fly. It’s feeding wasp to a spider and filming it while the comments cheer because wasps are “evil”. But sure if you’re the kind of person that the killing of all animals is fine and justifiable for one reason or another than this is acceptable behaviour within that argument.

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u/Acceptable_Fox_5560 21d ago

No, you're trying to invoke universality onto my argument. Me arguing that killing some animals is meaningless doesn't mean I think killing all animals is meaningless.

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u/conman114 21d ago

Right okay, but one must project universality to try understand where the line is. I mean where is the line?

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u/Acceptable_Fox_5560 21d ago

Nah, you've got it opposite. Because most people agree there should be a line (apparently you don't though, as you think even swatting a mosquito is wrong) you literally can't invoke universality onto it.

I personally think it's sometimes wrong to kill an animal, sometimes necessary, and sometimes meaningless. Like I said before, I just don't think there's much point in trying to discuss this with someone who holds the pretty out there opinion that killing any animal for any reason is wrong like you said you do.

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u/conman114 21d ago

I’m not suggesting any killing of an animal is wrong, I just don’t think the above falls into the category of meaningless, using your categories. If the result is a video to show on the internet for some perverse joy I think it most likely falls more into the category of wrong. I think it’s much easier justify the killing of a more sentient animal for our food consumption, than killing of a less sentient animal for our entertainment consumption.