Quote Originally Posted by Onua Nuva View Post
I want to hear every possible reason that you can think of why someone would be afraid of snakes so we can disprove every single one. Those of you who frequently bring your snakes to events might have some expierence with such people so you could provide me and the others some reasons. IMO the only thing that could possibly be gross about snakes is what they eat (not that I'm grossed out; Their food isn't nearly as gross as carrion!). This will be a great opportunity to help prevent the fear of snakes!
You have to remember, people's fears started thousands of years ago when information that was available back then was lousy or non-existent, unlike now.

It's hard to break people's ingrained fears after thousands of years of handed down "All snakes are bad and need to be feared and or killed".

Nothing much has changed since then, parents raise their kids to fear them. Because we fear what we don't understand. Just my opinion!