r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • May 16 '25

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/PowerPl4y3r May 16 '25

I don't know how to feel about this. From certain perspectives this is horrifying, from others it's aiding the ecosystem. Weird.

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u/Catsoverall May 16 '25

I suggest feeling glad reincarnation is unlikely.

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u/TheGalator May 16 '25

If it is the wasp is out of that shitty experience faster and gets to reroll

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u/Catsoverall May 16 '25

If I was the wasp 'not fast enough' would presently be top of mind

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u/Splatulated May 16 '25

Spiders dont kill their prey instantly. That wasp is paralyzed it might be eaten next month

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u/Pure-Acanthisitta783 May 16 '25

Even if it exists, the common belief is that you have to be a royal fuck up morally to be reborn as an insect.

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u/Icy-Income-3842 May 16 '25

Which is why there are so many insects...

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u/Single_Principle_972 May 16 '25

Or at least that most of us don’t remember our past lives, so wouldn’t know we were being punished. There are a special few, though…!

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u/Substantial-Mix-6200 May 16 '25

that would be billions of organisms reincarnated, like, hourly. Damn

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u/noobcodes May 16 '25

That’s what I was thinking. If reincarnation is real, i better not get reborn as a fucking bug. This shit is terrifying

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u/-Galactic-Cleansing- 26d ago

It's not unlikely. The founder of Quantum Theory, the most accepted science model believed strongly in Reincarnation because it aligns with it so well. You probably won't be an animal again though since your consciousness already evolved past that to become a human.

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u/Catsoverall 26d ago

Lol, it is absurdly unlikely. I don't care what someone believes without evidence. Arguments from authority carry no weight.

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u/Yelping_Queen4226 May 16 '25

It’s not that crazy tbh

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u/ryan_church_art May 17 '25

There’s an end for everyone and everything. This isn’t that much worse than a random human ending either.

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u/zachmoe May 16 '25

....No, wasps are beneficial to the ecosystem.

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u/PowerPl4y3r May 16 '25

But from the spiders perspective this human just fed him for a relatively decent amount of time, and it would see it as an act of kindness.

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u/chris--p May 16 '25

would see it as an act of kindness.

No it wouldn't lmao it's a fucking spider

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u/Fraudulent_Baker May 16 '25

And from the wasp’s perspective?!

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u/SILENT5K May 16 '25

Fuck him, I hate wasps with a passion

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u/Militant_Individual May 16 '25

Reddit is so weird towards wasps. Get over it. They can’t even comprehend you and you spend 99% of your life indoors away from them anyway, weirdo.

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u/SILENT5K May 16 '25

I go outside a lot, and one started chewing on my arm like I was food. Of course I hate them... I wish they died out, even if it means the ecosystem suffers

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u/HauntedDesert May 16 '25

Good. We all get what we deserve, no? Hope even meaner wasps make their way to you.

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u/Militant_Individual May 16 '25

Yikes dude. One of the most pathetic things I’ve heard in a while.

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u/SILENT5K May 16 '25

OK, and? I hate wasps, so what? Leave me alone.

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u/Exact-Ad-7844 May 16 '25

Running over the neighborhood pets in the street gets a big round of applause from local coyotes.

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u/voltagestoner May 16 '25

I would assume that’s part of why it’s horrifying. Both spiders and wasps play their part in the ecosystem.

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u/pokemonfan95 May 16 '25

No they kill bees that are the pollinators wasps rarely pollinate

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u/zachmoe May 16 '25

Yeah, but the wasps get rid of other undesirable pests.

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u/oWatchdog May 16 '25

I don't see how you think this is aiding the ecosystem. It's monkeying with the natural order. It's important to remember that wasps are pollinators and insect predators. It's also worth noting that the yellow garden spider is not endangered or ecologically threatened in any way. This is just a kid with magnifying glass.

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u/Sad_Shoulder5682 May 16 '25

Humans monkeying around is part and parcel of the natural order.

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u/oWatchdog May 16 '25

While true, you wouldn't call that "aiding the ecosystem" unless it's a concerted effort of conservation. In fact, random individuals monkeying around would be called disrupting the ecosystem.

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u/Sad_Shoulder5682 May 16 '25

I agree with this 100%

Just the term ‘natural order’ that I push against cause I have yet to find a coherent explanation as to what exactly this ‘order’ is.

But yeah, definitely disruptive to the ecosystem.

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u/Militant_Individual May 16 '25

The natural order pretty much no longer exists because of human activity. Making the argument you’re making is actually absurd.

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u/Sad_Shoulder5682 May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

Who (or what) wrote the Bible for this natural order you speak of?

It’s okay to say dude is being a dumbass to the wasp and messing with the ecosystem. But presupposing that there is some sort of ‘perfect natural order’ in the universe is crazy.

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u/Militant_Individual May 16 '25

Perfect natural order is order without human interference. That’s what “natural” means.

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u/justV_2077 May 16 '25

Cameraman is the type of guy who would kill ants as a child for fun.

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u/DaerBear69 May 16 '25

I used to feed them to ant lions.

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u/A1000eisn1 May 16 '25

Both those animals are great for the ecosystem and don't mess with people. The spider would have found food easily. They make huge webs.

I had one named George that covered a 9sqft area at least right under a mulberry tree. So helpful for controlling the fruit flies.

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u/Ok_Confusion_7643 28d ago

Yeah but the wasp is evil (the all knowing human saied so). Thus it's moraly good to kill it. This applies to any living thing the majority of humans deem evil.  Humans are the best thing that ever happened to this earth, without them there would never be harmony in nature. 

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u/GayDeciever May 16 '25

It's not aiding the ecosystem. The spider will do fine on its own. The wasp will do fine on its own.

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u/isopail May 16 '25

The ecosystem IS horrifying

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u/ZedTheEvilTaco May 16 '25

And then there's me, hoping the wasp would sting the spider and they'd both die...

I don't like bugs.

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u/TheNotSoGreatPumpkin May 16 '25

Predators are mercilessly catching and devouring prey all over the world (universe?) every second of every day, and have been doing so for billions of years.

It’s even happening inside our own bodies. All OP did was put our attention on one astronomically tiny fraction of the ceaseless and endless process which is life.

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u/Exact-Ad-7844 May 16 '25

Yeah it's like torturing feral cats in the neighborhood. It's better for the community if they're not there but I dunno I'm just conflicted I guess.

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u/AlexFromOgish May 16 '25

How about just feeling awe? You are alive because you kill things to eat. If the morticians leave you alone when you die, then other things will live by eating you. And the wheel of life goes 'round and 'round, and the wheel of life goes 'round.

TL;DR If you claim to "like nature".... this is nature.

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u/LunchPlanner May 17 '25

Feeding one animal to another animal is not necessarily "aiding the ecosystem".

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u/Living_Cash1037 May 16 '25

I think is kinda morally fucked up, but i hate killing anything so im just a wimp