If I kill something out of fear or hatred, what does that say about me? I don't know what it says about me morally, but I do know what it says about my own courage and tolerance. I don't want to the bug to die for nothing, but more importantly, I don't want to be the type of person who is so scared of something that's less than an inch long that I feel an urge to kill it. If it's really that big, fast, and ugly, I'm more likely to catch it and study it for a while and then let it go somewhere else. I've always liked bugs and I've picked up many of them and had many of them as pets. (Even mosquito larvae.) However, I'm not saying that I want big ugly spiders to crawl on me, surprise me, or fall in my food. But they are around, and they always will be, and that's something I can accept and move on.
I don't think killing bugs is actually "wrong". It's just however you look at it.
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