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Shelob and other descendants of Ungoliant are certainly evil. "But still she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; a
by havblue 3y ago
Shelob and other descendants of Ungoliant are certainly evil.
"But still she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness."
Now if you're interested in non-evil spiders I highly recommend deepness in the sky by Vernor Vinge.
- elijaht 3y agoMore non-evil spiders: Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- soperj 3y agoPretty one-sided view. Elves and Men both feast and eat living things as well.
- harimau777 3y agoMost people don't eat species with human level intelligence.
- soperj 3y agoOnly because we've killed most of the whales already.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoThe fact that it's what makes it not evil is a huge philosophical debate. Also we did enslaved our own, raped them, and killed them, pretending they were not intelligent and didn't have a soul. We do eat octopus, which have demonstrated level of intelligence close to a human child. Also, suffering is not proportional to intelligence, are you evil because you make life suffers, or because it understands how you do it ? I don't think it's that clear cut. And I'm not sure we would stop to eat beef if tomorrow somebody proved they are quite smart. The orgies of meat we bath into based on factories that turn chickens and cows existences into support to grow protein and nothing else does remind me of the spider.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoBy that description, that makes pretty much all humans in our civilization evil. We do exactly that.