This is NOT intended to start a debate/argument/anything of that sort. I am merely trying figure out why we get such a bad rap. I know a lot of people were forced into going to church as kids. I personally feel that this is where negativity towards snakes/owners thereof stems. You see, as small kids, some of us ( a bunch probably) were carted off to sunday school. I'm not just talking about snake owners, I'm talking about the scared public at large here. And in sunday school we were all taught about adam and eve ( atleast the christians were) and the garden of eden. In that story there was a serpent that coerced eve into eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil ( IIRC, correct me please if I'm wrong,it was a long time ago). I personally feel that a lot of the negative feelings people have towards snakes starts right there. When your a kid (read 3-6 years old) and your being told the truth about the world and in this true story the serpent is evil, then a lot of people subconsciously link "serpent = evil". I am not a religious person, nor do I claim to be, so my facts might be skewed. please correct me if I am wrong. Like I said earlier, this is just an attempt to get to the root of the "snake=negativity" stigma. please delete this if it's remotely misconstrued as "trouble making".