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In the context of animal rights, and providing evidence of wasps being sentient as support for the rights of wasps, I am making the point that wasps are a massive net negative when existing in my immediate vicinity. We all accept the death of insects throughout the course of merely existing - we accidentally step on them, they hit our windshields, etc. I consider it a right to exist in and around my home without being painfully attacked by the fauna, and if that means I kill a hundred wasps in the 200 square feet of my yard then I accept that as the cost to insects for me to live a life unencumbered by painful attacks.

For context, I am vegetarian (no dairy but I eat pasture raised eggs) because I believe in treating animals that have a "life experience" compassionately and reducing my impact to them as much as reasonably possible. But there are limits to what I want to give mental effort to in my life because if I spent an hour a day thinking about this it would be a net negative to the world in the other ways I could be productively spending that time. And I am not convinced wasps have deep enough of a "life experience" that I am depriving them of anything meaningfully when I kill them.

I go out of my way to not kill insects whenever it's not horribly inconvenient. I always let them outside instead of killing them in the home. I'll avoid stepping on ones outside if I see them. I have saved honey bees a few times when I see them immobile and give them a drop of water so they can recover and fly off. I'm not mindlessly cruel to animals or the environment.