selective compassion

[miriam_e]

Insects and arachnids are both arthropods. They are animals with their skeletons on the outside. They are very different from us vertebrates with our internal skeletons and soft, fleshy exteriors. Spiders are poisonous and feed upon mostly insects. Wasps are poisonous and many of them find spiders to feed to their young. There is a kind of equivalence in lifeform and lifestyle.

So why did I let a wasp escape out my kitchen window tonight away from the spider?

I like spiders and I like wasps... but I somehow felt more compassion for the pretty wasp and saved it, condemning the equally pretty spider to go without a meal.

Why?

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I should add that what stories I did watch of Star Trek, especially the first ones, I did enjoy. Mostly the SF was pretty good. It was just that the military stuff was always there and felt like listening to a good piece of music with a sharp, constant, high-pitched tone screeching all the way through it. At first I could ignore it and enjoy the entertainment, but after a while it grated more and more. Eventually it set my teeth on edge so much I couldn't bear it anymore. It's a pity, because a lot of great SF writers worked on those early shows. I'm sure there would have been a lot on the Next Generation episodes too. There seemed to be fewer good writers on Voyager, and none on Enterprise (at least the episodes I saw).