2 brothers where playing in the yard and 1 of them found a butterfly trap in the spider’s web. The spider begins to approach the butterfly, but then the boy reaches to save it from the spider’s web. As the boy reached to help the butterfly his brother crashes the spider. The 1 who tried to save the butterfly got angry and asked his brother why he killed the spider. The brother replies, because you wanted to save the butterfly from the spider. His brother replies no I wanted to save them both! The one who killed the spider then said Spiders need to kill butterflies or they will die of starvation so if you keep saving the butterfly the spider would die away. So to spare the butterfly and to ease the spiders suffering you should just kill the spider. The one you saved the butterfly said no you don’t have the right to take the life of the spider. He wanted to save them both.
My question is: would you save the butterfly or kill the spider?
Basically asking who do you feel is right.
2007-01-11 03:26:40 · 13 answers · asked by blackbible1 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Cool question I have never heard that one before? I guess I would have to save the butterfly. The spider can find more food I hope.
2007-01-11 03:30:06 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is an incredible question.
Last year about August time I was ready to go out shopping. I looked out of my kitchen window and saw a butterfly trapped in a spider's web. It was fluttering it's wings wildly. I felt so much emotion in me as I watched it. I knew I had limited time to catch my bus, I asked a neighbour to help, they laughed at me. I went outside and gently released the butterfly from the web but the threads of the web were entangled in it's wings, it fell to the ground, but I could still see the black threads of the spider's web on it's wings. I went into my house for a pair of tweezers as I knew my fingers were not as nimble as years gone by. My knees are not so good either. Yet I was able to bend down and gently pick up that butterfly and with the tweezers take away the thread I could just about see. I should add here my eyesight is not too clever!!! The butterfly jumped on to my ankle, I said "You are free now you can go". It flew around my body two or three times and landed on my head. It then flew around my garden and away into the distance. Now, how far can you see a butterfly? I saw that butterfly as if it was an aeroplane. I believe I experienced an incredible oneness with nature on that day. And I don't think the spider starved as it was still happily living outside my kitchen window a month later.
And thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share that experiece with so many people.
2007-01-11 08:02:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would kill the spider. Not to save the butterfly, but because I hate spiders.
2007-01-11 03:54:54 · answer #3 · answered by oscr_thegrouch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about killing the spider, but I do believe the first boy was wrong to save the butterfly. He is intruding on the natural course of life and the natural course of the food chain.
2007-01-11 03:35:23 · answer #4 · answered by Ty Cobb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Id let the spider eat the butterfly, its nature. And killing the spider is wrong, it wont starve to death without the butterfly. Chances are if it caught a butterfly, it can catch alot of other bugs. Leave Nature alone!
2007-01-11 03:33:04 · answer #5 · answered by tweakk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would save the butterfly because the butterfly is a beautiful creature and hurts no one. I wouldn't hurt the spider either, he will find some food sooner or later.
2007-01-11 10:32:34 · answer #6 · answered by dustylee33 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I would have left it be. Butterfly wings are very fragile and coated in tiny scales which help them fly better, and by trying to rescue it you may cause it more harm that good by taking off many of these scales and/or tearing it's wings. Thus starving the spider AND killing the butterfly.
2007-01-11 03:36:52 · answer #7 · answered by grinjill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the spirit moved in the little boy to save the butterfly, he was being used as an instrument of God's love and mercy in his life.
One day as I was raking up our courtyard, I noticed a baby bird being chased by a predatory bird. It was just a fledgling, and it needed some time to strengthen it's wings. I picked it up and protected it for a few days, and released it. The same bird came back every day for a long time, and eventually had his nest and offspring in our courtyard. I was so deeply honored.
God speaks to us sometimes through nature.
2007-01-14 23:19:17 · answer #8 · answered by Lion J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would do neither. It's all part of natural selection, and life. It's like what would you do, save the cow or kill the farmer?
2007-01-11 03:31:20 · answer #9 · answered by photogrl262000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would turn away and do neither. We eat cows, no one saves them. It's the rules of life. The stongest eats the weakest.
2007-01-11 05:26:34 · answer #10 · answered by Hotcakes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋