I Can’t Blame Chris Christie For Killing A Spider

I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about how New Jersey Governor Chris Christie killed a spider in his office in front of a bunch of kids. Though I think it was a little silly that he tweeted that he’d saved the kids from the spider (he had to have known the news was going to have a field day with that), I still can’t go with PETA and condemn Christie for having killed the spider.

Now, I do agree that he should not have killed the spider. In theory. I think it’s wrong to unnecessarily kill anything. I don’t even like the idea of killing things for a reason, but I admit that I’m weak on this and still eat meat and wear a leather jacket (sorry, but I do).

More on point, I know there was no reason to kill the spider. The spider was no threat at all and spiders (in general, other than extremely poisonous spiders or spiders big enough to damage humans with a bite which was not this one in any case) are more helpful to people than harmful. I know this.

However, I don’t like spiders.

It’s wrong, I know, but it’s something burned into a portion of my brain that I do not understand (which is probably most). They just creep me out. Frankly, as much as I know it’s wrong and don’t think I should, I probably would have killed the spider too. I’m sure PETA would be mad at me too, if I was significant enough for them to worry about.