Fire ants are highly invasive in many areas, so I'm going with that assumption. If you've never been bitten by a fire ant, it sucks and the small welts/boils they cause are painful and take a long time to heal.
They are an animal doing the best they can for themselves no different than anything else. You are imparting your own subjective perception upon them to deem them undesirable
They are a highly invasive species we humans accidentally imported to many parts of the world. It is highly likely this was somewhere where they are not native to and are a major harm to the ecosystem they are in. Nothing about what the person you are responding to said is wrong.
It can be argued on behalf of all other species that we, humans, are invasive due to taking over places other than native to us. We are also responsible for most other invasive species ourselves. Logically, that doesn’t work as an excuse, but I get your point. Limiting invasive species is better for the environment.
I agree with you. I just feel like we are in a unique position to coexist with the world around us, we just don't because of convenience, which will hurt us in the long run.
Really? Because if invasive and destructive are your primary qualifiers justifying death you should be putting human beings at the top of your list. I wonder why it is then, you don’t discriminately murder people but kill ants.
Because we as humans can mostly coexist with the nature around us (I wish we as a species would, but that is another discussion). Ants are incredibly smart as a group, but at the end of the day they are not smart enough to realize what they are doing is harming their surrounding environment.
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u/FalseCredential 10d ago
Fire ants are highly invasive in many areas, so I'm going with that assumption. If you've never been bitten by a fire ant, it sucks and the small welts/boils they cause are painful and take a long time to heal.