Steve, when you mentioned allowing the spider to continue "without fear of violence" I thought for sure you would address the idea of the violence the spider will perpetrate on other bugs. The spider you let live will go on to kill many other bugs, so by not killing one spider you've sealed the fate of multiple other bugs. If you're worried about bug violence in your house, shouldn't you have killed the spider to reduce the total amount of violence?
Or consider the cockroaches your wife has an aversion to. It sounds as though she would be happy to kill any cockroaches she sees, or at least have someone do it for her. Knowing that a cockroach killer lives in your house, if you're truly concerned about reducing cockroach violence, shouldn't you be going to greater lengths to remove or secure any food sources for the cockroaches in order to reduce their rate of procreation which would then reduce the odds that Erin would see one and kill it?
Your post seems to be trying to make a point about oneness, but I'm not really getting it. If you're feeling oneness with the spider, aren't you turning your back on the bugs it will kill? Or if you're talking about oneness with nature, aren't you ignoring the fact that animals are constantly killing other animals and you killing a cockroach isn't really a big deal especially if it makes your wife feel better? Or maybe you're just pointing out that eating raw heightens your sensitivity to living creatures, even bugs? If so, great, but maybe mentioning not killing cockroaches was going too far and pushed more people away, thereby lessening your influence and ability to raise readers' levels of consciousness? Sorry, just confused by this post.
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