I came here because I'm having a moral crisis and I thought

>>2235999
Wear his shell as a second skin and identify as bug-kin in your class. If they give you a bad grade, tell him that they are discriminating against your sexual identity.

>>2236005
Thank you for your honesty

take a good a photo of it and tell the instructor you don't want to kill living things

if they won't give you the credit take it up with someone higher than him

>>2235999
Insects barley have brains

They don't even think or feel

>>2236041
That's not the point op is trying to make anon, he is arguing that he feels it is immoral to take this creatures life just so his class can see he caught one. The bug, while not very intelligent, can perceive pain, and he feels it's unjust to kill it for a grade. Just take a good photo of it with timestamp anon. Or a video even better

>>2236094
>the bug can perceive pain
No it can't. Pain is a physical response as well as emotional. Bugs have no emotions so the "pain" doesn't matter.

Fuck bugs anyway. Kill them all.

>>2236111
pain is a subjective experience, subjectivity requires consciousness and consciousness can't be measured or tested properly.

nothing besides humans have pain.

>>2235999
Can you hold it captive for a while, show whoever you need to show, and then you can release it if that's what you want. Or keep it until it dies and use it in your collection.