Q: Where do your environmental ethics lie?
It is hard to say where my environmental ethics lie. I feel torn between biocentric and anthropocentric. I do believe that all life on earth is equal, and that humans are not the center of the world. What makes me torn between the two is the way that I live. 
Living in Winnipeg, summers are the time when mosquitoes are most abundant. I feel no remorse what so ever when I swat a mosquito that has been sucking blood from my arms or legs; nor do I feel any remorse when I kill any other insects. Although I would never go hunting for insects just to kill them, but if they are in my personal space, I feel it is only natural to get rid of them because it's "cleaner" to do so. Perhaps it was the way that I was brought up, or maybe it was my fears for insects that makes me act this way.
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