I thought it was funny and likes seeing their organs.>Grow up>Feel overwhelming guilt for hurting so many snails >They did nothing wrong, they just wanted to have a good day>Try and be kinder to snails nowPlease try and teach your kids that snails are not bad creatures and just want to have a good day.It sounds dumb but I genuinely feel like such an asshole for how many snails I just let die in slow horrible ways for nothing but my twisted childhood entertainment, only to see them now as something totally wholesome and sweet
>>5142806don't be upset about it those snails had it coming
>>5142833They didn't. They deserved to have a good day and not have a stupid child kill them cause "hurrr durrr organs and guts look cool".I saw it as they were pests. No different than roaches or scorpions. They weren't. They didn't bother me and I should have just let them be.What I did back then was wrong.If I have a boy, I will do everything I can to at least plant the seed in their head that a snail is just a slow happy critter trying to have a good day.They died with their organs fully exposed. The worse pain imaginable. No way to regrow their shells.They deserved better.
>>5142806>>5142844Holy shit me too kek. I completely forgot about it until now. I dont even remember my thought process, but I guess I saw them as undeserving of love as flies and roaches. Nowadays I would help a snail get out of a street if I saw one, but I hardly see them these days.
>>5142863>Nowadays I would help a snail get out of a street if I saw one, but I hardly see them these days.I don't see em anymore.I have no clue why they were in the desert, but they were. Closest I see now is slugs which are a pest.Snail deserved better
Kids do stupid and evil shitMy boomer parents told me kids used to do things like put firecrackers in the mouths of frogs and stuff, but they deeply regret it now
>>5142870Boomers at least had mass lead poisoning as a reason to behave that way. I guess all I can do is grow up an do better. For what ever it's worth I am very kind to animals now and try and care for them when I can with the exception of pests that break into my home. Snails deserve to have good days even if they are slow.
>>5142877she doesnt look like she's having a good day...
>>5142844But they are pests. They destroy gardens
>>5142945I appreciate your attempt to make me feel better. If it were a garden I may have felt a little better. It wasn't.It was an apartment complex.They didn't deserve it.I feel better than yesterday.I can only grow as a person and try to do better and guide others not to repeat my mistakes.>>5142932That one got to me cause of the cracked shell, but they're still determined to have a good day.What I did was worse. The can survive small fractures. What I did completely destroyed their shell and was cruel and wrong.If I see a snail I will attempt to help them and help them have a good day.If I have kids, I will tell the that snails are great terrarium pets so they avoid sadistic impulses
how many of these images do you have
>>5143071As many as I find on a search.There are a lot of variations, they all make me feel a little sad and guilty
Nigger they're snails. They're barely even alive. You feeling bad about this is infinitely more pain than those snails ever felt.
>>5143272Empathy for lesser creatures is a sign of a soul.
>>5143280Thanks.If they were consumed for Escargot or were ruining my property or a danger to my dogs or something. I am not such a bleeding heart I refuse to step on a scorpion. What started bothering me was it was such cruelty for absolutely no reason. If anything they made things worse by feeding ants and roaches and scorpions. I see them far differently now.They deserve compassion.>>5143272I mean, probably. But they still didn't deserve it.It's not "meat is murder" type sperging. The way they died is the worse was they could possibly die. It wasn't an accident or for a reason other than dumb kid wanna look at snail guts. Maybe it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but even by your logic attempting to be a better person who is kinda to lesser creatures is important.
>>5142870I poured chemicals on ants, no regrets. Fuck ants
>>5143329Ants are different. They are pests. They get in your home. They contaminate your food. They bite humans.A snail is different.Part of my guilt stems from knowing the horrible things I did created a feast for ants
>>5143329I liked feeding insects to ant colonies and spiders in their webs.
I feel bad for fucking everything except mosquitoes and cockroaches.I'm going to sound like a huge faggot but I do feel bad when I see an ant on my shoe or clothes because I know that once it gets off it's doomed as it'll never find its way back home.Same with basically everything you do. Just gardening ruins the life of so many critters it's pretty sad when you think about it. Doesn't mean you should be an absolute retard and convince yourself that killing living beings is fine just because you consider yourself a superior lifeform
I wish more people had the same attitude you do opthe biggest challenge we have today is learning how to coexist with the natural world and too many people think not raping nature is a sign of weakness
>>5143725If you are consuming it, I have less issue. After all I am not a vegetarian.If it is a threat to the things you love or your property, sure, that is pest control.But.... I've gotten a soft spot for these little guys lately and see the error of my childhood.
>>5143334Ants were here before you.
i cried once as a kid because my mom refused to let me keep the cool snail i found outside
>>5145199and Sharks were here before trees. What is your point?Ants get in your home, eat/contaminate you food, and bring little to no benefit to humans. I'll leave them alone if they aren't bothering me, problem is they usually are always doing something that is bothersome
>>5142806Humans are apex predators. Our instinct to destroy other animals is innate.
>>5145386It doesn't have to be that way.
>>5142806Do you have any pepe variants of this motivational snail? preferably apu
>>5148028there's not much
>>5142806I was the same way.I feel really bad about it now that I'm much older.
very good macro
>>5143329This except I used a magnifying glass as a solar deathray on them. Ants always invaded my house when I was younger so that made them enemies.
>>5142806DamnNever did anything like thisMom had me kill a small snake once and i got teary eyed after I did it cause I didn't want too but she thought it was a copperhead (not sure what it was, it was a solid copperish (almost red really) color but had no markings, much darker than any copperhead i've seenFelt real bad about it, i was in high school by then
I had to kill a mouse that was living in my basement by heading it with a shovel after it got stuck on a sticky trap because it kept avoiding the bucket trap I set up and was getting into stuff and trying to build nests. I will never forget it looking up at me in total terror, it took me a few minutes to will myself to kill it. I wish I could have gotten it out of my house somehow instead.
The only time I ever got in a fight at school was when I became genuinely engaged at another kid coming over and stomping all over an anthill I was watching, it wasn't even anywhere near the school.
>>5149239*by beheading it with a shovel.I couldn't think of a better way to kill it. It was really stuck to the trap and I didn't want to drown. My mother was really upset to because she was the one who bought the sticky traps and had just assumed the somehow quickly and painlessly killed whatever got stuck to them, idea what she thought they did exactly
>>5149218Snakes, especially copper heads, are venomous and territorial.If it were a Carolina Racer or something maybe it'd be worth feeling bad about since all it's doing is keeping your land free of mice.>>5149239I've grown to had mice and rats with a passion (not the domesticated ones of course)They destroy your home and get into your food. Fuck those little bastards.They deserve suffering.All a snail ever wanted to do was have a good day.
>>5150742Well that's just it, I don't think it was a copperhead at all it had no pattern whatsoever and wasn't that coppery, more just red
>>5149218Judging by what you are describing it sounds like a cotton mouth which is even deadlier and more aggressive.If it had red stripe then it would be the non venomous rat snake
>>5142806If it can help I hda friend that instead would collect them and free them in the house, his mom was quirky enough and didn't really care for that phase, so they just chilled with having snails strolling on the ceiling >>5149239I had to kill one too similarly because my cat was torturing it, feels badNow my dogs take care of them quickly, but they're getting a bit old
It's fucked up but I think hurting animals is kind of an essential step to a young child developing their morality. A kid just doesn't know what he's capable of and how it's going to make him feel until he actually does it, and it'll stick with him for the rest of his life.
I used to put salt on them and slugs.I feel so guilty subjecting them to that torture.
>>5142806I think it's a natural impulse for kids. They're interested in seeing inside stuff, including living things. Experiencing what it's like to open up snails, insects, animals, etc is pretty typical childhood behavior. You eventually learn enough and grow out of it. Only things you repain curious about are how what people are like inside. All the hidden things going on inside the human body that are so hard to see first hand. It's a mystery always pressing at the back of the mind. Such a a strong urge.
>>5145364Sharks need to be killed off too. Except maybe lemon sharks, they are potentially dangerous but they are mostly adorable.
>>5142806i accidentally stepped on a snail when i was a kid once and i got so grossed out by the sound and how it looked i would always check the sidewalk for snails and be careful to not step on them. they're interesting animals.
a couple weeks ago I had a black swallowtail pupating on a shady corner of my house and one day I found it had emerged but was sitting on the ground out in the sun, so I moved it over to the shade of a tree. its wings hadn't opened all the way but it still tried to flap away as I picked it up and after a day its wings still hadn't filled upthe 2nd day after it emerged it wasn't in the spot I last saw it and I have no idea if it finally got in a state to fly off, or if it was fucked and a bird got it or somethingI feel so bad since I don't know if I somehow injured it and lead to it being easy prey, or if it was just doomed from the startpic is the afternoon I saw it out in the sun
>>5142806You should went on a snail GENOCIDE for majority of you life and then "find god" and pretend like nothing ever happened and your faith will protect you..
>>5142863Wait for rainy days. Go to areas with greeneryThere you go>>5142865Where you from?
>>5143077Relax you were a kid. + its hard to affect the population of snails they breed in the thousands. Nothing affected alls good.>>5143272Let me fix that,"Nigger: they're snails. They're barely even alive. You feeling bad about this is infinitely more pain than those snails ever felt."
>>5142806Kids do stupid stuff. I used to cook frogs alive in plastic containers by heating them up with a lighter when I was 6-8. Feel super guilty about it now.
>>5153362When I was like 3 or 4 I found a tree frog and pulled all of its limbs off and then put it into my pool and when I realized it could no longer move and would starve I started crying and that's how I learned
I had snails as pets and while I wasn't a good owner I could never eat escargot with the family.>>5143380This, I try not to kill insects at all anymore, not directly anyways or if they resist relocation, I'll toss them outside instead, and if they can't be tossed outside, I let the lights do the job. But when I go outside I do my best to not step on anything, while I still consider it legitimate to fuck up mosquitos, fleas or whatever, I don't even enjoy it beyond finally getting peace or knowing they won't hurt anyone. Nothing should die but yet this is how the world is. I don't get sad over eating or protecting my kin by removing any dangerous invasive bug I find. I do not want to kill ants or spiders, they're cute and try their best to survive just like we do. I remember feeling sadness when I saw all the destroyed worms that got crushed, dried or cut to peices on the pavement after they thought it was fine to cross over. Same for snails, I try to move them, and avoid them, but many I see weeks later crushed by carelessness. To be fair I never liked killing them aside from apathy and convenience, but I was easy to guide towards it. Part of this change is religious for me.
>>5151639Convenient to your post, mine was a crab when I was very small, someone pointed it to me on the beach and as it went towards me I panicked and killed the crab because I hadn't ever seen something like it, I felt extremely guilty later when they were surprised, as if it wasn't necessary and then I learnt I killed it for nothing. That and a spider I was made to spat on by other kids. I felt bad for it. It didn't fall but It must've felt awful for it's air.
I killed ants when I was a kid and feel bad about that. My dad told me his grandma (who was otherwise very nice) used to gather snails eating her garden then smash them against a wall.
>>5153491I like ants, I don't kill them. There's this pest control website in my language that states>ants find it annoying to have boiled water poured over them
op had a psychotic break due to AI overuse
>>5152495El Paso Texas.>>5151741>>5151743OMG these are the fucking cutest!>>5153860No, I was emotional though. Something triggered an empathy rush in me and I was overwhelmed with guilt.I think it's because the original pic and mene reminds me of an ex/friend of mine, then it reminded me of what I did as a kid.
>>5142806When I was about four I decided to have a slug race, but all we had around was snails. Figuring slugs were just snails without shells, I lined up some snails, tore all their shells off, and waited. After awhile my brother came by and asked me what I was doing."I'm having a slug race!""Which one's winning?""That one! He's still moving!" My mom was apparently appalled, but my dad and brother thought it was pretty funny. I never did it again and now I move snails away from pavement and onto greenery. The lesson is that slugs aren't just snails with their shells removed.
>>5155306>I decided to have a slug race, but all we had around was snails. Figuring slugs were just snails without shells, I lined up some snails, tore all their shells off, and waited.THAT IS BOTH SLIGHTLY HORRIFYING AND KIND OF CUTE. You didn't have malice in your heart, and you did learn your lesson. Funny thing is you actually had it backwards. Slugs are snails that hat their shells shrink to a tiny small internal bone
oh wow, I also used to do that but tortured ants and pill bugs by forcing them to fight to the death in a plastic container I took from the kitchen. The ants won obviously.
>>5143329>>5149156>>5153491>>5153512When I was an underageb& way back in the early 2000s I was sitting in my booster seat in the car and quickly found out it was infested with ants. I made it a game trying to kill as many as I could. It was only near the end of the 3 hour road trip that my parents found out.When my dad lifted that car seat, what I saw was truly horrifying: hundreds of the little bastards.I had another incident around that time where I accidentally stepped on a fire ant hill and got lit up. My grandpa (God rest his soul) dumped a whole can of gas on that hill and set it ablaze. I couldn’t have been happier.TL;DR: Fuck ants
>>5142806When I was a kid and transferred to a cheaper kindergarten one of the first things I saw was the other kids picking up a snail and putting it at the bottom of one side of a see-saw then smashing it into pieces
>>5155333Pill bugs don't deserve torture. I mean I guess technically I tortured them cause I would play with rollypollies and roll them around for hours.... But all I did was delay their day. I didn't kill them or at least tried not to.>>5155352Seriously fuck ants!>>5155453This is why I hope people teach kids snails are just slow and want to have a good day and unlike pests don't deserve to suffer.
the snails come out of my yard when it rains. sometimes if I'm not careful I'll crunch one without looking, feels bad man
>>5156627Accidents happen sometimes. That is okay. As long as you aren't malicious and try not to hurt them you aren't a bad person
>>5153512what the fuck is this image from?I swear I have seen it before please anon help
>>5142863>but I hardly see them these daysyeah you, OP, and all the other monsters of the earth genocided them.You will pay for this.
>>5157330it's flick from a bug's life
>>5147288Why didn't you reply to me on duo
>>5152495>Wait for rainy days. Go to areas with greenery>There you goWhere do they hang out in the meantime? I'm impatient.
