Do butterflies infest homes and destroy property?
I feel like it’s less what they look like, and more how they impact us. It’s still very human-centric, but ya know, not so much a beauty thing as one might think at first.
For real. I don’t like mosquitos, either. Has nothing to do with the fact that they are ugly.
Mosquitos are actually quite beautiful https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58398905
Just lookup mosquito macro photography - they’re all colorful and fluffy and everything
Aedes Aegypti and Simuliidae can go die in a fire
really? Because the Prince of Proboscis was talking smack about you, and he has a schnoz like a bent candy cane. i know you two used to mash face puckers. And then there’s billy buzzbutt? the homeless blood addict who invented molotov cocktails? that motherfucker gave you leprosy. And menopause. and i don’t even know how that is supposed to be contagious. He was ugly as sin. Then there was Virginialetta. I should call her.
I suggest reading this book. There’s a whole chapter about that or two, it may change your mind.
Roaches infest your home and spread diseases. Butterflies live outside and spread pollen.
More like you are ingesting their house
I don’t think I could eat a whole house.
that’s quitter talk
I’ll acknowledge I made a typo, means to say invading, but I’ll have to live with my mistakes
I try to not kill any without asking my scientist friend if they’re invasive.
She said I’m allowed to scrunch all the spotted lantern flies, and I think they’re very neat looking?
Cockroaches tend to be food pests, butterflies are often pollinators. They’re not on the same level.
… From the human perspective.
Yes. And probably have been on different levels for hundreds of thousands of years for humans. I would imagine disgust for cockroaches and fascination with butterflies has a degree evolutionary bake in… for humans.
Remjnds me of…
Dennis Leary: My fluffy little dog… He’s so cute- There’s the problem. We only want to save the cute animals, don’t we? Yeah. Why don’t we just have animal auditions. Line 'em up one by one and interview them individually.
Dennis: What are you?
Otter: I’m an otter.
Dennis: And what do you do?
Otter: I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands.
Dennis: You’re free to go. And what are you?
Cow: I’m a cow.
Denis: Get in the fucking truck, ok pal!
Cow: But I’m an animal.
Dennis: You’re a baseball glove! Get on that truck!
Cow: I’m an animal, I have rights!
Dennis: (pointing at leather jacket) Yeah, here’s yer fucking cousin, get on the fucking truck, pal!
Dennis Leary, Dennis Leary: No Cure for Cancer
In both instances, you’re the moral agent who gets to decide. And it’s not our advantage in intelligence or wisdom, it’s our advantage in mass.
Morals have power dynamics, CMM.
you’re not supposed to use your molars, bonesy
Wait, isn’t it all esthetics at the end of the day?
