The Spider: Nature's Handmaiden or Tool of Satan?

I was having a vigorous debate with a local Wuss the other day.  Here is a excerpt:


Scott: I fucking hate spiders.  They should all die.


Wuss: Spiders aren’t so bad.


Scott: If I ever got godlike powers, they would all die.


Wuss: Spiders are beneficial, they eat other insects you know.


Scott: So we are keeping spiders around so they will eat the other insects?  Fuck them too.  I’ll buy an extra can of raid.


Wuss: You can’t get rid of the spiders, they are an important part of the ecosystem.


Scott: The fucking Earth will adjust.  The planet didn’t fucking implode when the last dodo died, did it?


Wuss: It would cause some sort of problem.  What would the birds eat?


Scott: They can eat each other for all I care.  Were the birds crying for me when they stopped making Dino Pebbles cereal?  I don’t fucking think so.  Ok, I can compromise.  I would just have a radius of 25 miles around me that any insect closer than 25 miles would instantly vaporize.


Wuss: Get serious.


Scott: I am serious; I’m talking 25 miles up and down too.  I don’t need bugs under my feet.  And fuck vaporizing them, I don’t want to be breathing bug fumes – they all get instantly teleported into the center of the sun.

I think I got my point across, don't you?  

Also, here is a poster that neatly sums all this up: