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 03:27:14 · 14 answers · asked by blackbible1 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I would do neither, and let nature take it's course, spiders are supposed to eat bugs in order to survive, neither brother has the right to interfere, so they are both wrong.
2007-01-11 03:32:50 · answer #1 · answered by Frank the tank 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The best choice would be to leave both alone, but the better of the two options would be to save the butterfly. The butterfly may have gotten away on it's own; however, the spider would not have been smashed by nature.
Despite the fact that the spider and butterfly will both die in the long run, the spider has set his trap. Just because one butterfly got away, that doesn't mean another won't come along. The brother can't monitor the web 24/7 (unless it's answers.yahoo.com), so he can't stop the butterfly from coming back or another one from coming along -- providing the spider her next meal.
2007-01-11 11:34:43 · answer #2 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My question about this is 'would that brother have saved a housefly caught in the spider's web...'
If so, then your question would make a valid point, if he would not have saved the fly, then he cared only for what was pretty.
As for the course of the spider, butterfly, and 2 brothers; the insect and arachnid should have been left to complete their own fates without interference from humans. Neither creature was affecting humanity in the least.
2007-01-11 11:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have saved the butterfly and left the spider alone. I have to admit tho, I have seen moths in webs and watched the spider eat them. I guess it's just something about butterflies.
2007-01-11 21:19:47 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ Zoey ♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well this answer comes to you from someone who doesn't kill bugs.(Only flys, fleas, mosquitoes and nats)...even spiders.lol, I think that it would be wrong to kill the poor spider. What I would have done is save the butterfly and give the spider another treat, maybe a fly or mosquito. Spiders need to eat, it's part of nature. Why not let him have something that should be dead any way...
2007-01-11 11:47:57 · answer #5 · answered by skipper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a hard one. I would have to say save the butterfly because I believe what goes around comes around. Saving the butterfly's life will come back as to someone saving you. I never would think about taking someone's life or kill anything!
2007-01-11 12:55:47 · answer #6 · answered by sweetie_ankay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The butterfly. I would glady find a fly for the spider.
2007-01-11 11:45:26 · answer #7 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have left them both alone. Let nature take it's course. Perhaps it was time for the Butterfly to die, it's generally the weak, sick or old that become the next bite in the food chain - it's that way for a reason.
2007-01-11 11:31:47 · answer #8 · answered by workingclasshero 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
this leads us to different reasonings and different points of view to your question. that's even why the two brothers had different types of suggestions. anyway you save the butterfly now, are you gonna save another one trapped a couple of miles away from you?
2007-01-11 12:04:48 · answer #9 · answered by veddyq 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm.. Interesting Question..btw...!!!.. well.. for me..i'd wld definately save the the butterfly... thats..mre important... and if u killed the spider...so called a life is lost there...and its the animals nature to hunt... ;)
2007-01-11 11:32:44 · answer #10 · answered by Redweedplace ® 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋