It's also true that.... well, where DO you draw the line?

Antibiotics kill living organisms as well, after all.

Are mosquitoes an exception? What about lice or ticks?

Are helminths not as "alive" as insects?

What makes vertebrates special?

Cephalopods would argue that point... and more to the point, probably could argue it successfully. LOL.

Once you stop and really think about this, you realize that there are probably no options which are entirely, 100% ethical or internally consistent and completely black and white. Even Jains cause death in order to live, and as far as I know, they don't advocate limiting one's oxygen intake in order to minimize impact.

It makes far more sense (to me, from my occasionally Vulcan-like philosophical outlook) to work through it as an individual and decide where you are going to stand on that spectrum-- and why.




Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.