From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 21:14:24 MDT
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, J Corbally wrote:
> >From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
[all the commentary about the various ways to dispose of slugs snipped].
Wow. You guys are way meaner than I am. I generally try
to take spiders outside -- though I'll sometimes resort
to flushing them down the toilet. Either of these alternatives
I view as giving them a "fighting chance". (I generally view
spiders on the positive side of the fence -- taking out health
risks such as ticks and flies. But of course there are exceptions,
particularly if they bite you and infect you with some unknown
strain of some undiscovered disease.) So my general perspective
is "me inside" -- "spiders outside".
Now, I don't think there is any positive benefit (to humans)
for slugs. But I'd definitely favor the "repel" rather than
"maim" strategies. You two are definitely toast if slugs
ever involve intelligence and read the extropian archives.
Man -- you have got to learn to think long term. I posted
a post earlier this evening about how fast science is
moving. You do *not* want to be uploaded and receive a
virus infected with a giant slug whose sole raison d'etre
is to consume you for lunch. That definitely ranks on
a "fate worse than death"!
Kudos to whomever changed the topic -- we have way too much
topic bleed and whatever we can do to counter that is a good thing.
Robert
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