The Ant and the Butterfly

So on the way to college something strange happened. I was on the road riding mybike when suddenly a butterfly got in my way. I tried veering away, but it just got sucked into the vortex and twak. no sign of it anywhere. After that there was the dee p sense of guilt. damn, maybe I should've veered more or slowed down. There was so much remorse, poor butterfly did not harm anyone, just got in the way, and now it was no more' and more stuff like that. The I got to wondering... There were numerous times when I would twak mosquitos, charge at flies.. u know but that was be'cos if I didn't get them, they would. so it was more of a survival thing.. But then there have been some times, when I've twaked ants by the hordes, and there has been no remorse.. In practice it is the same as the butterfly, it has evolved from similar lineage.. Yet there is strangely a different way in which we perceive an ant and the way we would perceive a butterfly.. If an ant is killed it isn't given much thought but it if there is a dead butterfly there is a hue and cry... COld it be that we are biased by the way the 2 look... could it be that our actions are determined by their appearnce... are we then hippocrites...

Conversely if we extrapolate this to our everyday life... unconsciously we do pay more attention to a person who looks better than a person who doesn't...