I’m still wiping out ants, and still feeling worse about it. It’s getting to the point where they’re practically sharing my office with me: I put a napkin down with some food residue on it and in minutes the whole napkin is black and crawling.
They are ants: they are not programmed with fear but only instinct. When I kill them I keep thinking how terrible it is to be an ant following your instinct and then it’s all over in a second.
Something has to change. I will be devising a plan to let the ants in my office live without bothering me. Update to follow.