You can legally kill roaches.
You can legally kill people too. Cops do it all the time.
See, the issue with your statement is the “you” part. As a dark skinned person with leftist political stances, I don’t believe I can get away with what cops do.
Cops are just one of many examples. Here are some other ways of legally killing people:
- joining the army
- becoming a doctor and systemically neglect women and poc
- fatally injuring someone in self defense
- getting someone pregant in places with abortion bans
Notice that I said killing, not ‘murdering’. So long as it’s either not deliberate or acceptable by law, you can legally get people killed.
How would they even prove intent in any of those cases? Has that ever actually happened?
You can’t always prove intent. That’s why some of these problems are systemic. Which one are you doubting? There are too many examples of each for me to list all of them.
All of them, honestly. I’m not asking to argue any point or any other; I’m genuinely curious, you seem to know more about it than I do and I am too lazy to Startpage it.
Here is a short list that I came up with after a quick search. Justifiable homicide is a similar concept to this, albeit more specific than just ‘killing’.
Instructions unclear. Apparently being overrun by a roach army is not a good enough reason to burn your own house down.
I feel like thats not even that many roaches for a real infestation
Also doesnt mention what kind
And there are proffesionals you can call probably once to deal with that problem.
If you find a human living in your attic unbeknownst to you well
Thats a lifetime of therapy or more to deal with after dealing with the immediate problem
Roaches every time
fr, that person might rape and/or murder me but the roaches won’t lol
I was going to say exactly this. 1,000 roaches is not that many roaches, can be easily dealt with, and pose no serious immediate threat.
One human could kill you and your entire family and then burn your house down.
Why do we assume the human wants to harm you? If they’re in your attic, that means they would have already killed you if they wanted.
Chances are if you maintain peace, they will.
It’s so interesting that people assume the worst of the human, unironically says something about society. I was just imagining a homeless person.
I take your point, but the reasoning “this person has already demonstrated themselves willing, able, and motivated to breach a major social contract related to your safety; therefore I fear that they may try to breach more” is not unreasonable. The proportion of “home invaders who are also (willing to be) murderers” is gonna be way larger than the proportion of willing murderers among the general population.
I don’t want random dildos hanging out in my house without my knowledge, friendly or not. At least with the roaches, I don’t have to have a conversation.
Because humans are much more sneaky and vicious than that. People like that in the real world are squatters who can and have harmed them on discovery.
If you see 1 roach, there’s probably 1,000 more hiding. If you see 1,000 roaches…
Then there’s only one hiding?
yeah but he’s the size of Larry Bird and he sucks at hiding
I don’t know why, but this made me laugh so hard it hurt my ribs and stomach. I haven’t laughed that hard in a while - thank you!
Roaches can cause respiratory problems, but I’d take that over potential murder and rape.
Also, I would be very disappointed in my dogs if they didn’t notice a person living in the attic. You can find a ball by scent–you’d better notice a person creeping around!
My dog would have just befriended the person and convinced them to bring him snacks.
A person creeping around? That’s just Paul, mate. You know Paul, he’s been living in the attic for years. Stupid human, doesn’t even recognize it’s own flatmates.
Paul — is that the name of the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home???
Very possible thought line for one of my dogs. The other doesn’t trust anyone without endless cajoling.
What if it’s a nice person though?
They would have asked if they could live in my attic
May I live in your attic? I’m a great cook.
No thanks its currently occupied by spiders and i dont need more roommates
I have a spider too! Her name is Bianca-Fabian.
Mine doesn’t have a name yet, but it caught that really annoying fly yesterday, which was nice.
Absolutely with you here. Roaches is normal at worst
A LIFETIME of therapy?
to be fairy there are also professionals who will be all too willing to take any unregistered humans off your hands…
After the summer we have been having if I found a person I my attic they would not be found living.
I hate to tell you that it’s cool enough today here that I shut my window.
damn, make sure to leave a blanket in your attic so your stranger can stay warm.
I think I’ll bring him some hot tea.
My attic is over the detached garage, so I’d choose person hands down.
I probably wouldn’t know for a really long time, because I don’t use that space (the ladder up there is duct-taped where it cracked at some point, and since I don’t use it, I’m not about to replace it) it stays decently warm up there so less concern about finding a frozen corpse, and if someone did croak in the garage, the smell wouldn’t permanently be in the house.
But roaches would find their way into the house.
Am I the only one here who can’t work out what the second person is saying in that reply? Having a “has anyone really been far even as decided…” moment.
Paraphrased, it says: “this made me think hard because I don’t like either option”
Nothing else is important information, just sensational fluff to make a regular statement sound more exciting.
lmao I had flashbacks to the same line as well. For old memes sake, Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
As [email protected] translated:
This is truly, on god, the first “would you rather” that I’ve ever had to devote significant thought to.”
They responded to you but accidentally put it into a new root comment. They edited it, but I think they didn’t ping you correctly, so here’s your ping :)
I’m messing up left, right and centre today! Thank you for that 😊
No worries. Did it actually ping you properly? From a brief search on search-lemmy.com, it seems it’s up to each individual app/client to do a substring search for mentions of your username. For another user to “mention” you (make a clickable link, but not necessarily notify you since that’s not implemented apparently), they have to manually link it:
[@[email protected]](https://instance.tld/u/username).No, I forgot the first @. Just a slip up.
For once I am glad I live in a location that I would be too hot for anything to live in my attic.
That’s what you think. Roaches can survive extreme heat. Humans, not so much.
I didn’t need to hear this before bed time.
The person. It doesn’t even say of it’s alive or dead, if it’s someone you know or not, if it’s someone who also lives in the house or not.
A thousand cockroaches is a lot
It’s says “living in your attic”…
True, I guess I can’t read. But the rest still stands
Fine, you get a corpse full of 1000 cockroaches 🪳
Congrats!
I don’t want to deal with any person that can handle the intense summer heat in my attic without dying.
Yes, its 110+ F here during the day… the attic… well a few years ago we had a guy out to service…
He FELL down the attic ladder due to heat stroke. Its one of those almost straight ladders that fold into the ceiling.
He was thankfully ok, and after some AC and water, was right as rain… I should say, he was a young guy in good health, and not only that a friend of a family member. We wanted to take care of him, first and foremost. If we thought medical attention was needed (and my own ass has had heat stroke, I know it) we would have called emergency services. We didn’t want to stick him with an ambulance bill (no insurance, private contractor) if he didn’t need it.
But fuck, 1k roaches? You know what, I’ll board the animals, use it as an excuse to get a nice hotel room with the wife, see if we can both take PTO for the week off and take an unprompted vacay, while the exterminator does their business.
That being said, 10 years ago, when I was much much poorer, with much more tenuous job stability… I’d take a knife up for the human in the attic, take the body to a family friend with a pig farm. Pigs make the best witnesses. They eat all the evidence, and can’t speak.
It’s a lot easier to kill a single human than 1000 roaches.
True, a cockroach will live pretty near forever it seems.
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Is the floor open for questions?
Absolutely.
I’d rather the person. A roommate that’s so good, I didn’t even notice them there until I physically checked the attic? Perfect.
Are they tidy? Do they clean up and keep the noise at a dull roar? They can stay.
That was my thought, if they’ve gone unnoticed until then that means they are quiet, that alone puts them in the top 5% of roommates.
“This is truly, on god, the first “would you rather” that I’ve ever had to devote significant thought to.”
They just don’t like punctuation.
Edit, sorry @ [email protected] I meant to reply to you.
Thank you!
1000 roaches or a human in my attic is not what fucked me up, it was that damn second comment and I scrolled furiously thinking surely it’s not just me. Thanks for the explanation.
What does “on god” mean? First I’ve heard that term.
Truthfully
They’re swearing to god that what they are saying is true. It’s phrased a bit awkwardly, I think they’ve mixed up “I swear to god” and “hand on heart” or maybe “on my mother’s life”, something like that.
“on god” is just zoomer slang.
It can also be abbreviated to “ong” which is not the same as “omg”.
Ah! I’m pretty old, definitely not up to date on the latest slang.
like, “I swear by god”, I’m guessing
Oh ffs. How you managed to decipher that, I don’t know. Thank you!!
Person seems solvable
DDT would work im both cases
One human sized roach, or 1000 roach sized humans?
A human sized roach is big enough to just shoot. A roach-sized human could be hiding anywhere with like a poisoned needle or whatever.
Yeah, but a human sized roach has an armoured carapace which is now a few centimetres thick. Do you have a cannon with armour piercing ammunition at home? I’ll take my chances in forming an alliance with the small people.
Square-cube law, a human size roach would suffocate and likely be crushed by its own weight.
Aren’t you fun.
I thought what he said was very interesting as a matter of fact.
Tally ho, lad.
I live in North America, so…
A roach that big wouldn’t be able to move much, it’s legs would probably splinter under the weight of that armored carapace. Also it probably wouldn’t be able to “breathe” at that size, it’s respiratory system wouldn’t function well enough to keep it alive for very long. It’s a problem that would solve itself pretty quickly.
Well, aren’t you fun.
Desert Eagle w/ steel core ammo?
For all your “defend your neighbours home without opening any doors” needs. Sure, that works.
Definitely the 1 human sized roach this one’s obvious. It’s hard enough getting rid of 1000 roach sized roaches and now you want to give them human ingenuity?
Human sized roach. I mean Gregor just kinda died of his own accord didn’t he? You just gotta emotionally reject it as having ever been your son and maybe throw an apple or two at it.
