Why are spiders more scary than sharks?

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According to wiki, a family in Kentucky lived with a serious recluse spider infestation for many years without once being bitten. Eventually animal control removed 2000 brown recluse spiders from the family house.

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Think the title says it all....

Given the amount of damage each creature can do, and one is our predator, why the imbalance??

Sharks don't crawl in and out of your mouth while you sleep.

Seen plenty of sharks while scuba diving - they're not nearly as threatening as you might expect. On the other hand, moray eels and stonefish I give a lot of respect to. Morays because they're hostile and capable of doing real damage, and stonefish because they aren't hostile - but they look like damn rocks and have extremely poisonous spines.

You haven't seen the right kind of shark.

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Except brown recluse spiders are really hard to provoke, have really short fangs, and you have to press one up against your skin to elicit a bite. Even then, majority of the bites have so little effect that they go unnoticed, and a small percentage cause serious problems.

Great white, on the other hand, need no provocation, have really long teeth, will hunt you down, and will usually bleed you out.

Been bitten by a member of the recluse family. The afflicted area took three years to fully heal and five before all the scarring faded. I was lucky since it bit me right next to my spine, the damage could have been far worse and lifelong permanent.

Never even seen a shark that wasn't in a tank or in a TV show/movie.

If you were bitten by a great white, the effected area will take only 3 hours to digest and 5 hours before becoming shark poo. If it had bitten you next to the spine, life long permanent damage would only last 2 seconds.