Massive Flooding In The US Leaves Many Dead.

[BIAD]

(A boring Limey's view on the situation commenting from a country that doesn't have big indigenous spiders)

This might something to do with a resignation to the realities of animate and inanimate objects.

Logic demands that the reality of when a human that pulls the trigger of the firearm, then the  bullet
will not 'find' it's target, it will simply travel along the course that it's forced to by the direction the
barrel was aimed.

If nothing impedes it's course and the person has aimed the firearm accurately at the wished-for
target, then the bullet will strike that desired target.

Most humans accept this and even though we have built-in survival demands that make us turn to
the option of 'Fight-or-Flight', in our hearts we're all resigned to the notion that the 'thunder-stick'
makes a noise and then you're suddenly either injured or dead.

One cannot out-run a bullet, but a spider...?

Well, you can flee from a spider and visa-versa. You can lash out from the moment you see it
and destroy the hairy-legged, beady-eyed intruder. Maybe some would quietly back-out of the
situation and leave the wrong-limbed monster that probably clambered over you last night
while you slept.

The rationality that you out-size the sneaky-bastard that's been watching you for God-knows
-how-long in your OWN home, is lost in most cases and we seem to immediately perceive that
the crouching arthropod with it's wicked fangs and tapping foot -has the upper-hand.

The bullet has no cunning or fear that hones that cunning, it's an inanimate object that gains no
pride from out-witting the target it speeds toward. The human who controls the firearm can be
negotiated with by utilising threats or pleas.
He-or-she speaks the same language that even when human words can sometimes fail, emotions
have powers beyond mere utterance.

But a spider...?