I have a phobia of insects(not if they are small enough for me to notice their details), crabs, prawns etc. All the not-animal-like-life, to be honest.
One day, at a supermarket, a friend of mine teased me with a crab in her hand. Later that day, we were discussing about this incident, and we realized that both of us look at insects very differently.
She looks at insects etc as "things that move", ie, lacking of will, like a toy or something.
I look at them as creatures who I cannot empathize with, and hence, whose motives I cannot understand. So they freak me out.
That conversation kind of felt like interfacing at the boundaries of our consciousness
One day, at a supermarket, a friend of mine teased me with a crab in her hand. Later that day, we were discussing about this incident, and we realized that both of us look at insects very differently.
She looks at insects etc as "things that move", ie, lacking of will, like a toy or something. I look at them as creatures who I cannot empathize with, and hence, whose motives I cannot understand. So they freak me out.
That conversation kind of felt like interfacing at the boundaries of our consciousness