Would You Kill A Useless Creature For Your Own Joy If You Had The Advantage?

You see something out of the corner of your eye. It’s a...a bug? A small meaningless ant. You look at it and wonder what to do. It's fate is now in your hands. If you want it dead, you could kill it. Or you could let it go about it’s meaningless useless life.

What a difficult decision. Let it live...or die. You pick. You think about it. It’s not like it’s gonna do anything important! You think. Just another creature that will not benefit me. Its life is so pointless I wouldn’t feel any guilt if I just let it perish. That is as you think.

It’s a bug right? There’s millions of them! No no, billions! I’ve heard that there can be as many bugs in one square mile as there are people on the planet! I’m sure having one less ant in this world won’t be a problem.

Tough...you still can’t decide. It is a living, breathing, organism. Just like you. I’m sure you could show a little mercy. After all, it’s probably gonna die soon anyway. So why cut it's life short?

A thought comes into your head. You see these animals as useless lifeless zombies that grow their population to the millions. You can’t help but wonder...“Isn’t that what people do?”

No no...you think. These bugs are not worth it. All they do is walk around and build piles of dirt! It’s not like they work with technology and do more important stuff.

But then again...the poor thing may not impact anyone in any way with its existence, but still, it’s alive. Let it live as long as its body can last it. It’s life will soon end anyways, so why make its life shorter?

You go along and leave the ant to its business. Because...in the end, we are all just animals doing what we are instinctively born to do. Even if it’s very useless.