Quote Originally Posted by pfan151 View Post
I don't see how it could be considered anything other than a negative trait. Have you ever seen a spider that is a bad spinner? It is very disturbing to watch. I may be able to find a video when I get home of one of my friends spiders spinning. I would consider his to be about a 5 on a scale of 1-10 as far as spinning goes. I'll post it if I can find it.

As for your friend, I don't now what his problem is or know how bad the problem you mention is, but if it was a genetic disorder and would be passed on to his children 100% of the time like the wobble is passed down in spiders I would think it would be better for him not to have children. I know if it were me I would prefer not to have children than to pass on known genetic problems to my kids. I would just adopt.
While trying to keep from invoking Godwin's Law, I'm going to again point out that things that one person might see as a "problem" might, to someone else, just be a harmless quirk in their personality. And no one thinks we should all be exactly the same!
As I mentioned before, albinism is known to cause problems in wild animals, but very few of the folks around here seem to mind the breeding of them...
As I said, I don't know anything about wobbling though, which is the reason I'm here asking about it. I just wonder if there's evidence that it's bad, other then "it seems bad." For all we know, it might give them a superior ability to do...something (though it doesn't seem likely)