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nolifenofuture
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I just found a tiny house spider on my pillow and brushed it off of the side of my bed. For a second I thought about smashing it but then I had a bit of a thought hit me: people kill spiders because they are ugly. I can confirm this by looking at surveys as well, I looked up why people are afraid of spiders and the number one reason as "legginess" (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005796797000508 ) which we can easily interpret as a fear of their physical appearance. The overwhelming majority of spiders cannot harm you and the ones that can want nothing to do with an animal 1000x their size, but yet people still kill them because they look like something that should die.