Is it immoral to hoover up a spider?

Markus Antonius

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If spiders were any good, we woundn't be pestered by flies/midgets etc. on a daily basis

The Venus Project

Funny you ask the question. I was looking out my kitchen window at lunchtime and saw a spider capture a horsefly and I asked my flatmate if I should free it. Funnily enough, before I could get outside it had spindled it, and ran with it up the side of the cobweb and into a hole in the side of the window with the fly. Are we morally right to kill spiders, if after all, they kill to live and eat themselves?

Are we supposed to be of a higher consciousness and therefore obliged not to act on our animal instincts? As big as we feel ourselves to be, we are still animals with a heightened tooling and sentience but feeling, emotions etc can be felt by animals in my opinion. I suppose the question you are asking is - am I a good person misusing my power for my own tidiness and making my sense of shelter a priority over the life of another living organism.

If your own abode is more important than another living organism, and your use of your position on the food chain is used to assert that dominance, then you can't be disgusted with yourself or even upset morally speaking when something bad happens to you by events/fate etc. The question is, does moral choice, result in better outcomes for us in terms of chance/luck/fate etc.

My excuse is, they will reproduce and infest the place but that doesn't negate moving it outside which I usually do 50% of the time, the other 50 down the toilet.