In “Making Nature Sacred” the author talks about a Quaker John Woolman. Woolman describes an experience he had in his childhood to explain human connection with the “brute creation.” He says that when he was a child he threw a rock at a robin and killed her. He then climbed up the tree and killed all of the babies in the robin’s nest. He felt it was the right thing to do. It was his ethical duty considering he killed their mother. He even quotes Prov. 12:10 as he decides what to do. “The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” Rather than having to suffer a cruel death with no mother to give them food and nuture, he thinks it's better to save them from that and just killing them. I don't know if I could have done that but he had said he felt it was his duty. My neighbor killed a bird when we were all younger and I remember him talking about how he didn't feel bad but felt cooler. It is so sad to see people's different morals through something as small as killing a bird.