“I've heard all the usual Sweetness and Light that kids get pushed at them—how they should always forgive, how there’s some good in the worst of us, etc. But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don’t plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people. A black widow spider can’t help it—but that’s the point.”

— Robert A. Heinlein , book Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 10

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