All life is not equal. If one chooses to not kill the ant based on their own personal perspectives, that's fine. But to consider an ant's life as important as a man's is just too extreme and based on personal sentiments, and it is without justification that is [/i]not[i] concerned with some spiritual attachment...even if the argument is, as was suggested, concerned with the "chaos theory" or some version thereof (that is, killing the ant may effect its colony, which thereby could effect the ecosystem, and yaddah, yaddah, yaddah). BOLLOCKS TO ALL THAT!

To think of an organism without any sentience whatsoever, without a mind, without any emotional context, with nothing more than instincts and chemical responses, as being equal to that of even a dog (where an emotional context can be implied) is worthy of a righteous laugh. HA!