Do You Think It's OK To Kill 200,000 Ants For Art?

Traditions regarding the treatment of living things vary from the Jains of India, who will not eat a living plant, to the Judeo-Christian "Dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Artist Chris Trueman is clearly of the"Dominion over creeping things" school, as were a surprising number of commenters on Jaymi's post Man Kills 200,000 Ants To Make Artistic Statement.