For a free holiday, would you kill a butterfly?

When I was a young boy I tried to be a butterfly collector. I found it pretty boring after a week or so but the butterflies might have found it even more boring. You see, I had read that you had to kill them with chemicals to maintain its beauty so i drowned them in aceton and then impailed them with my mothers sewing nails onto a pinboard. And no, no one has ever given me a free holiday.

If it's not an extremely endangered species, yes, I would.

Fortunately, the butterfly pictured in the crosshairs is already dead. At least according to https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

If the butterfly can sense pain input from its wings having been removed, but cannot understand why it is in pain or how its life has been changed due to its wings having been removed, is it still ethical? I would argue any unnecessary pain is cruel and therefore unethical. This is a wanton act of killing.

Vincent convinced me. A quick painless death. I promise to rescue seversl earthworms next tim ed it rains.

Also, i wouldn't eat a butterfly so it feels a little bit murdery at that point.

i read a story once about some time travelers that accidentally killed a butterfly while on vacation in the past, and it really screwed up their timeline. So no, I suppose.

Love the second guessing at the end with the ‘why?’ Question.

OF COURSE I WOULD! I've had many a chicken killed for me for one single meal! Why would I think twice about a friggin butterfly!?

Blimey , that's a dark question!