Back in New York I had a Buddhist roommate so devout, she wouldn’t even kill mosquitoes. At one point she captured a cockroach–it took her 30 minutes, for chrissakes–and she carried it outside and left it by a trash can “so that it has something to eat.”
Meanwhile, I reflexively killed bugs in front of her all the time. Perhaps she’d have preferred I use one of these:
I’m not sure if this is a one-off joke, or an actual product designed by Jeff Goldblum.
https://www.core77.com/posts/91916/Ambivalent-About-Killing-Product-Design-This-Flyswatter-Gives-the-Fly-a-Gamblers-Chance-of-Survival