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  • lifewithtreeslifewithtrees@mstdn.social
    Jul 28, 2026, 12:42 PM

    The ant is a wasp. You are not allergic but you were stung yesterday by wasps.

    Do you help it?

    #AskFedi

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  • ThoraiyaThoraiyaDyer@mastodon.social
    Jul 28, 2026, 12:45 PM

    @lifewithtrees you spend five minutes finding a stick long enough to save it without it touching you. Carefully setting it in the sun to dry its wings, you wonder what it thinks about what happened. As soon as it can fly again, it flies back into the pool.

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  • lifewithtreeslifewithtrees@mstdn.social
    Jul 28, 2026, 1:02 PM

    @ThoraiyaDyer I do the same. They land in the pool and get stuck. And I have definitely “saved” them and had them then go back in.

    It feels … something

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  • Hiker Geek 🌲💻🌲HikerGeek@mas.to
    Jul 28, 2026, 1:06 PM

    @lifewithtrees

    I'm kind of a let nature take its course person with things like this.

    What if the bee was in the pool of water because it had parasites and was sickly. Freeing it allows it to make it back to the hive and the parasites kill the whole hive?

    How many cute animal babies become unwilling orphans when a human thinks they are abandoned and "rescue" it but they just don't see the hiding parent nearby?

    Do you save the gazelle from the cheetah only to have the cheetah and its family starve?

    I do believe in being kind to my fellow humans. The wild world may be cruel sometimes but is a system millions of years old.

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  • lifewithtreeslifewithtrees@mstdn.social
    Jul 28, 2026, 4:21 PM

    @HikerGeek ah ok! So you would be more likely to engage with a human in danger than an animal of whatever species sounds like, yes?

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  • Hiker Geek 🌲💻🌲HikerGeek@mas.to
    Jul 28, 2026, 4:39 PM

    @lifewithtrees

    Actually I would engage with animals in danger caused by humans likely first. I do follow the general responders rule of don't make things worse and yourself a victim too so not unconditionally so.

    Unfortunately some desperate humans can be one of the most dangerous things you can come across. Most humans in need of help benefit greatly and will likely give it back when they can.

    Examples of animals in human trouble include sea turtles tangled in fishing nets or a racoon with a jar stuck on its head. I would help beached whales or dolphins even though that is likely natural but because the jury is still out on whether human underwater noise is making that worse I would if I could.

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  • lifewithtreeslifewithtrees@mstdn.social
    Jul 29, 2026, 12:55 PM

    @HikerGeek I really appreciate you explaining the reasoning! I can totally see what you are saying.

    I wonder how folks who are losing their home due to climate change (like flooded out) would be approached as it’s human caused to humans

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  • Hiker Geek 🌲💻🌲HikerGeek@mas.to
    Jul 29, 2026, 1:34 PM

    @lifewithtrees

    Life has been on this planet for a little less than 4 billion years. It has been a powerfully self adjusting system for a very long time.

    One thing nature has controls for is overpopulation. When a species overpopulates nature steps in. It may be direct like reducing the population by starvation or indirectly by plague. Some species do it themselves by turning on each other under population stress.

    I fear humans are the latter. When I was born there were 3.5 billion humans in the world. Now there are over 8 billion. A conservative estimate for the carrying capacity of the Earth is 12 billion. 18 billion tops.

    To get to your question given this tendency and many of our leaders fanning the flames of conflict I'm not counting on humans helping each other as much as they should going forward.

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