Who is right?

Question

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.

Answer 1

i would do nothing...its the natural course of things and i have little right to interfere...

Answer 2

It is a bad example because spiders lives mostly on insects like flies. So there was no need to kill the spider.

The butterfly is pretty and cause no harm.
While the spider can bite you and most humans will kill them because of that. Plus... they are creepy.

So... I would have saved the butterfly and killed the spider because I don't like them. Where I live... I have spiders as big as my hand... When they come in my house... they die... it's a territorial thing...

Answer 3

Neither is right. Their all wrong. The brother doesn't have the right to save the butterfly and the other brother doesn't have the right to kill the spider.

Answer 4

Neither. I find spiders fascinating, and when younger and bored, would catch bugs of varying sizes and thrown them into the spider's web and watch the action unfold.

So, I think it was wrong to save the butterfly and it was wrong to kill the spider.

Answer 5

Save the Butterfly, because after i,ve gone for my tea and to bed the spider will be catching the things all night lol . Tongue in cheek answer but nice question

Answer 6

Let nature be the judge. If the butterfly is meant to get out it will and if the spider should get to the butterfly, which will be a good food source for it, let it. Let nature take its course.

Answer 7

Near my house? Kill the spider - save the butterfly - definately. Don't want any spider's in my house around my family. Could be poisionous, I can't tell to look at them.
Out in a field somewhere? I would try to let both live.
My husband won't kill spiders and it drives me nuts. If he finds one in the house, he let's it loose outside. I tell him it just comes back in! I don't want to wake up with a spider on my face! (maybe biting me!)

Answer 8

Neither, spiders not only eat butterfly's, they eat other insects also. Butterfly's life span is shorter than a spider. Who's right? Depends on how deep you get into insects.

Answer 9

It is a very good question!

I think I would also sit back and watch the inevitable happening. But, instead of letting the spider starve, I would rather kill him.

Answer 10

wow well, I would have to say I would proabaly try to save the butterfly, and left the spider alone. He would have eventually found some new food, and if I didnt see it, I wouldnt have to worry.

Answer 11

There is no right or wrong in nature, there is only survival. Mankind puts that spin on it. It was that buferflies fate to be eaten by the spider, so I would just watch.