What would you do in this scenario?

[MMMowman]

The scenario is this:

You are in a small garden separated from the rest of the world in every way, other than you,
no living creature can leave or enter this garden. Within this garden there is a single butterfly
and a single spider and no other living creatures aside from the plants.

You have arrived upon the spider and butterfly just as the butterfly has landed in the spiders web,
the butterfly is only partially caught and with your help it can be freed easily without damaging the
web or the butterfly and without injury to yourself. The spider has also noticed the butterfly and is
heading to it but at a distance far enough that you can still help the butterfly without being injured
by a spider bite.

Here is the question, do you free the butterfly and leave the spider to starve as there are no other food
sources for it, or instead do you allow nature's course to continue and let the spider it's meal and leave the butterfly to die.

What is your decision and your reasoning?

ALSO; To stop the whole the butterfly wouldn't be much of a meal to the spider argument the butterfly is magical and will allow the spider to live until it reaches a natural death.

 

[Lucyfer86]

Well i'd help butterfly, since spiders are kind of creepy and i would not want one to make it's web all over MY garden.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Considering the life span of a butterfly is tiny compared to a spider, it will probably die in time for me to put it on the web after I rescue it.

 

[Detective Prince]

It's the Trigun scenario.

I'd save the butterfly. I hate spiders and butterflies are pretty so that's what I want in my pretty garden.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

This wouldn't happen to be inspired by Trigun, would it?

Anyways, I'd save the butterfly. If all I had were these two insects, and I had to chose between them, I'd at least want the pretty one to keep me company. Plus, I hate spiderwebs. They always get tangled up in my hair.

 

[Trunipbob]

I'd let the spider kill the butterfly, then before it had a chance to feed, I'd kill the spider.

Then I'd flip them both the bird, as birds eat both of those things.

 

[Prince Regent]

ALSO; To stop the whole the butterfly wouldn't be much of a meal to the spider argument the butterfly is magical and will allow the spider to live until it reaches a natural death.

Fuck the spider, I'd eat that magic butterfly.

Even if it wasn't magic I'd likely end up eating both anyway, as there are no sources of food in the garden.

 

[varulfic]

Call me shallow. Because I am. I am very shallow. And I am perfectly fine with that.

The Butterfly lives.

 

[StormShaun]

I would free the butterfly and smash the spider into hell, it be evil ever since I read Drizzt and that damn evil spider queen god.

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

Well, the flowers in the garden could probably use a magic butterfly, and I have no need for a spider to hunt the less appealing insects (edit: since there aren't any in the garden), so I'd have to save the butterfly, even though I really like spiders.

 

[MMMowman]

Well i'd help butterfly, since spiders are kind of creepy and i would not want one to make it's web all over MY garden.

Who said it was YOUR garden?

I would free the butterfly and feed the spider with my skin that way everyone wins. The butterfly gets a second chance, the spider gets a meal and I can live off the garden's fruit.

 

[cameron196789]

Let the spider eat the butterfly, then kill the spider, now only I rule the garden.

 

[Lucyfer86]

Well i'd help butterfly, since spiders are kind of creepy and i would not want one to make it's web all over MY garden.

Who said it was YOUR garden?

I would free the butterfly and feed the spider with my skin that way everyone wins. The butterfly gets a second chance, the spider gets a meal and I can live off the garden's fruit.

Well if i have to be in a garden separated from the world, ofc i will make it MY garden.

 

[AbstractStream]

Free the butterfly! The spider will end up starving.
...good because it could have bitten me at any second.

 

[BanicRhys]

I'd train that butterfly until it was ready to kick that spider's ass.

We're gonna need a montage.

 

[Meggiepants]

Butterflies are simply beautiful because they are made that way. Spiders look creepy, but they weave things of beauty. I'd get much more enjoyment out of watching the spider make it's web each day.

Also, it is the way of things to allow the spider to live. I'm not interested in playing God, even in this scenario. Someone else can have that job.

 

[Bloodstain]

I'd do nothing. It's natural for the spider to eat what it caught. I am not one to tangle with it and kill the spider just because the butterfly is pretty to me. Spiders are useful and interesting beings.
Also, I'd have a new spiderbro, fawk yea.

This wouldn't happen to be inspired by Trigun, would it?

Anyways, I'd save the butterfly. If all I had were these two insects, and I had to chose between them, I'd at least want the pretty one to keep me company. Plus, I hate spiderwebs. They always get tangled up in my hair.

Spiders aren't insects.

 

[SilentCom]

Kill them both so that neither one of them starves to death. Mercy killing for the win.

 

[thePyro_13]

I'd rather share the garden with the butterfly than the spider. So I save the butterfly.

Kill them both so that neither one of them starves to death. Mercy killing for the win.

But who will spare you from starving to death?