Bug hating and violence toward bugs being the Normal Reaction sucks so much, but it also hits different on an alterhuman level. We picked up a millipede from our bathroom (silly guy somehow got in there)--and me being very closely related in an alterhuman way to these guys, I accidentally slipped into front. So I go "damn ok I'm me now" and start carrying it outside to put it in the garden.
Buuut. One of our siblings just comes up to us, sees the millipede, and starts freaking out and telling us to kill it. Like that's... I dunno! You can clearly see I'm removing it from the house, it's just an animal, fear is one thing and I understand fear! You can stay away from it if you want. But you're screaming at me to kill this random animal? And unfortunately, that caused other people in the house to also come gawk and call me a freak too.
And I'm just so tired. Can't be a centipede therian without people going "eww" and can't carry a pretty similar little guy outside to a nice spot in the garden without people wanting me to get violent. Like.. I see myself in this little thing and even if I didn't I wouldn't understand why "kill it" is the okay reaction to have. I'm arthropodhearted in general and it's so upsetting that we're expected to be okay with just killing random animals because people find them scary or gross.
I guess there's some solidarity about it between me as a therian and the concept of bugs being almost universally hated... but I honestly think people should just not start telling people to kill things they're holding, just a thought! That shouldn't need to be something to even be a concept.
Anyway I put the guy in our garden, there's plenty of nice places for it to hide out there and it won't be disturbed again.