Let’s look a life for a second and consider how the size of a living creature reflects upon their life value. Unless you are messed up in the head, you wouldn’t go off and kill a human being. While on that same note, typically, you wouldn’t think twice about killing a fly on the wall. Why is that?

Does the size of a living creature reflect how valuable their life is? What about a dog or a cat? You wouldn’t kill a dog or a cat, but on the same token, you may have mouse traps set up around your house to kill mice who mind their own business eating little bugs and crumbs that go unseen. What is the difference between killing a mouse or rodent vs killing a cat or a dog? What is the ultimate element that enables humans to make the decision to kill another living creature?

This might sound stupid, I mean everyone will kill flies, bees and other pesty bugs. Some people set up mouse traps, mole traps and other gadgets that kill various smaller animals. In fact some products are quite cruel. How would you feel if you ate something that eventually started to eat and dissolve your insides? Victor — a leading company of mouse traps — has many products just like that.

Now granted, I am not stressing an opinion on this at all, I leave that to you. Why does size influence the value of a living creature? Why is it acceptable to kill a mouse but not kill a dog? I watch Animal Planet a lot and there is a show called Animal Cops which arrest people for animal cruelity. Why don’t mice and rodents have the same rights as horses, goats and other larger animals? Pretty strange if you think about it for a minute?