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Just something I've been discussing with a number of people and feel like cross posting:
For the last time, arachnophobes: it's not a "natural instinct." There are no spiders on Earth dangerous enough for a knee-jerk terror of them to have ever been a useful survival trait. What you have is a mental illness, and it's only commonplace in highly developed countries where so many children are raised in an anti-nature bubble. Just accept that your fear is a sad, unfortunate disease and stop attempting to pass it off as logical.
The same can be said for any aversion to any living organism under a fifth your size. Your ancient ancestors were cracking open the skulls of cave bears, not jumping up on cave tables demanding Thog squish a cockroach for them.
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You're just biased.
I mean, up close, spiders are cute ([link]), but the way they scuttle around gives me a bit of the heebie-jeebies.
At least sea slugs are cute to them.
In my family I'm the one who minds spiders and other small animals the least, thanks to a lecture on the non-ickiness of bugs I received at a local library in Los Angeles some years ago.
Although, I admit I once screamed at my parents to not move to a town because I found earthworms in the ground of one of it's public parks, and they listened to me. What was I thinking...
I can't agree with you. I am mystified as to why so many humans appear to have a relict instinct to avoid spiders given the lack of evidence for a major man-killing venomous spider in our prehistory, but I suspect there's something there we just haven't discovered yet.
I actually never heard of someone bringing out their venomous/lethal properties to reason their fear of spiders. In fact, it might be one of those things that simply adds to their fear, but it manifests itself as a logical reason for their subjective experience because, after all, phobias are suppose to be irrational; it's probably comforting for some people to have "reasons"...
I don't have arachnophobia, so I can't really speak for these people; but if it is about "control", I can kind of relate. I do feel mildly alarmed if I realize that there is a spider somewhere in the room. I have accidentally squished spiders in my book, clothes, shoes and so on because I...just can't see them. I remember accidentally smearing a spider across the floor, and I didn't exactly enjoy the display. This doesn't really make me fear them per say, but it's hard to get it off my mind if I see a spider in the house.
That said, I still enjoyed the point you made on this journal. It gave me a good chance to think about other things many people dislike because of lack of exposure to nature.