[MD] Reevers of Knowing

[John Carl]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Charybdis <charybdisxv at gmail.com> 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.


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> 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