You know someone has fash tendencies when they... (CW:Violence)
Immediately stomp an insect when they see one inside the house. It’s like a reflex or impulse and honestly it’s kinda scary seeing an otherwise nice person just stomp an insect or spider or whatever in cold blood almost instantaneously. There’s like no thought or contemplation, it’s just see the insect, and then immediately stomp it.
Like holy shit what did that little critter do to you? Just let it be.
Why silverfish? Afaik they are pretty harmless i have them too, they just quietly live wherever in the bathroom and don’t bother anyone except cat who loves to hunt them. I mean unless you have an entire infestation probably not just a few like me (and i suspect those are the same ones all the time, since silverfish can live for 7 years).
I used to be a lot more careful but every since having cockroaches & bedbugs back to back it’s made me really desensitized. I love living in the rust belt. Outdoors I never ever ever kill bugs other than mosquitos though.
Compassion for all living things isn’t nuts, and I’m sympathetic, but calling killing bugs a fash tendency is not reasonable or productive. It’s not indicative of anything. The only group that consistently refused to kill bugs, afaik, is the Jains. And there’s only a few million of them. Saying that every other culture, society, government, group of people in the world has fash tendencies because they thoughtlessly kill bugs is not accurate and does not represent a remotely materialist analysis.
When it’s mosquitoes, sorry, it’s kill on sight. Flies, I try to chase out the open windows. Stink bugs, I pick them up with a piece of paper and drop them outside because sorry, I can’t afford to have an infestation of y’all. And then you have the little pantry moths, I declare holy war on them every year when the weather gets warmer, and will stop at nothing to get rid of them.
I seen a six year old at the school I work at kill a fat cockroach 4 seconds after it jumped out his locker. Another kid stomped it too just to be safe.
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