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.
EDIT: Holy fuck the responses. I guess many didn’t actually read what I wrote. I wrote that people who “immediately stomp” without “thought or contemplation” have fash tendencies and I get accused of fashjacketing. Ugh whatever. To those who had thoughtful responses (e.g. if you feel something stinging your skin and swat it with your hand, or if you have an infestation issue in your house, etc.), I gotta say those make sense and I hear you all the way (and even in those cases it’s not like there’s a kneejerk intentional kill response, it’s usually accidental or done after careful deliberation). But to the ones complaining about fashjacketing, maybe do some self crit for fuck’s sake. You sound exactly like the fucking man vs bear defender types or a white fragility type, Jesus… It makes me actually think you do have fash tendencies tbh.
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.
Yes. To defend OP, the title did say might be one and although Jeff Foxworthy has turned that 'might ’ into an ‘do’ with that phrasing by association, it probably goes back further but whatever. So I can give ground that it’s a red flag, and does have a mentality in common with fascism in regards to killing things you view as inferior and seeing it as totally cool and okay. Vegan struggle sesh material here, but the industrial slaughter of living beings for the utility of another does have some pretty clear parallels.
If anything that can do me harm is in the process of that or seems to be ready to and it’s something like a bug, then I’m not gonna be able to reason with it and I can’t really give it a nonnlethal physical scare. My hands are kinds tied there. But otherwise, I don’t hurt things cause that’s bad and does speak to a mindset that is certainly fash adjacent but not in any meaningfully determining way. I get where it’s coming from.