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In reply to the discussion: People should stop killing spiders for no good reason. [View all]distantearlywarning
(4,475 posts)I have worked on it over the years and am much less afraid than I used to be. But it will never go away entirely.
As a result of working on it, I am now at the point where I am willing to let them live in my garden, and I even have a half-hearted sort of admiration for their industriousness at web-building and killing pests. (Except for Black Widows...they have to go no matter what.)
But I do not suffer spiders to live in my house, and never will. I am still so arachnophobic that I can barely approach close enough to them to kill them, much less devise a way to pick them up in a cup and take them somewhere. I have also gotten a couple of damn bad spider bites over the years, usually sometime in bed at night when I cannot even defend myself and am certainly not deliberately trying to intrude on a spider's space, including one that ended in an ER visit and a tetanus shot. So fuck spiders in the house.
I guess this makes me a shitty human being and a bad liberal. So be it. I would rather suffer the moral judgment of internet strangers than a spider in my bedroom.