On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Charybdis <[email protected]> wrote:
> It was certainly interesting to learn your perspective on this. > I have a sort of code that I follow with spiders. Well that's not quite the same thing as hating them, so I guess if you showed up in my environs I wouldn't be driven to standing on a chair and screeching. > > > If a spider is in my domain, and I can positively identify it as being > poisonous to humans, I will kill it. My fealty is to humanity first, and I > attempt to destroy potentially deadly invaders into our domains. Black > widows are fond of building in human structures outdoors, so I am often > looking for and killing them. Not a bug hater, then, but a bug hunter. Ok. I work in all kinds of old construction and woodsheds and I almost never see black widows. They are about the shyest spider around. I also never see rattlesnakes but when I do I take them down to the diggins in the hopes that they will either bite or scare off interlopers and flatlanders. "I have personal convictions to uphold. Ideals, you might say. I prefer not to kill animals. I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake." Ed Abbey, Desert Solitaire And you have to admit, Ed makes a lot of sense here. Humans with their intellects cause more trouble for the world than snakes or spiders ever could with their venoms. John the Humanist Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
