Did you know …
That to be a true spider (that is, in the order arinae of the class arachnida), a species must have, among other traits, exactly eight legs? It’s true! So if you were to pull off one or more of a spider’s legs, it would become something other than a spider! This is a remarkable example of both practical transubstantiation and animal cruelty.
The latter isn’t simply because of the act of violence (spiders don’t experience pain like you or I do; they feel it more like a chair or a horse would), it’s because once the individual is no longer a spider, the other spiders will not accept it any more. It’s sort of like getting kicked out of a union! (I should know how hard that is. The pipefitters might have said that it’s better for everyone, but tell that to all the schoolchildren who no longer get indoor sewage delivery.)
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