Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
Robert A. HeinleinEvolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.
Robert A. HeinleinDeath isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us โ us humans โ death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
Robert A. Heinlein