The Ants Shouldn't be Killed

You could never build an ant. You can barely build a robot to clean the house by clumsily bonking into walls.

No matter how you judge the presence of exploring ants, you must inevitably marvel over their great strength and durability. With no language, education, or formal organizers skimming fund raising money to support an extravagant lifestyle, they reveal inherent order and intelligent delegation of duties to fulfill their colony's purpose.

And you wish to extinguish them for haughty inconvenience?

They make use of excess available resources, repurposing for necessity. Outward expansion follows to fill a vacuum of unclaimed space. They too are just passing through and soon gone, not a persistent menace.

They aren't hurting anyone, unless you fall into a nest of fire ants, and that kind of drum clumsiness is on you. Leave them alone and they'll mostly leave you alone; tolerating them around you will let you live in peace instead of being angry at the prospect of sharing space. Are you really going to get mental about an insects that leave you alone while working to better their small village?

Man has right to destroy what he himself has created, but no right to destroy or stifle the works of others. Informal pacts among prey and predators acknowledge anything can happen on wild lands.

Only the tamed are inhibited by legal declarations cast as if real.