(December 9, 2017 at 11:08 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Fuck you, asshole!
Mice are not in the same category as insects. They are mammals with complex enough brains for us to be all but certain they are conscious creatures. They may deserve human rights but they don't deserve to be treated as vermin.
But they are vermin. Uncontrolled - they cause enormous damages, as well as endanger human lives. I don't know what your experience with rodents is, beyond a visit to a pet store, but I'll bet you don't have to deal with them much. If you had to keep them from destroying your crops, or your house - you'd get desensitized pretty quickly.
Whether or not they're "conscious creatures", you can't expect people whose livelihoods and/or health is at risk because of those b*ggers, to have much sympathy for them. It's not like you can reason with animals. The best we can do is use traps, that kill quickly - and even that is very difficult considering their numbers and breeding rates.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
