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Feeding his poisonous snakes to you would be much more effective.
To be fair, the snakes could be poisonous, and the killer could be feeding you to them, but he’s just telling you his plans for body disposal, not his method of killing you. He’ll likely use a knife, that way he can give the snakes bite sized pieces. You will be alive for this at first.
Admit it, y’all couldn’t resist correcting them.
The killer almost had me, but I learned in self-defense class that “poisonous [organism]” only inherently means ingested in colloquial usage and that venoms are more properly a subset of toxins (naturally-occurring poisons) which are a subset of poisons. Consequently, it’s like the killer showed me a square and called it a quadrilateral: I’m too pedantic to be affected.
Understanding the difference between things matters, dang it.
Have we as a collective eaten every species of snake in the world to know that absolutely none of them are poisonous? Can we rule out genetically modified snakes that would make them so? Or maybe they are fed a diet of human flesh and a steadily increasing amount of some supplemental toxic substance such that they have become immune to the toxin as it slowly builds up in the snakes’ flesh causing them to also become poisonous? Is it possible most snakes are actually poisonous but only if consumed in sufficient quantity on Thursday November 18th, 2084 at 6:30 p.m.?
I think some snakes are known to be poisonous. Snakes are prey to several animals.
Asking the very important and frankly, controversial questions.
Some men are born into greatness.
It it ok to eat raw venom glands?
I’ve read or heard that most types of snake venom are large, fragile proteins that are quickly broken down or neutralized by stomach acids and/or cooking. And most are only dangerous if they can enter the blood stream or are injected directly into body tissues.
In practice, there are lots of variables that come into play that might allow ingested venom to get into your bloodstream while still active, such as cuts/abrasions/sores in the mouth or ulcers in the lining of your digestive system.
So, in summary, it’s terribly risky.
My even-more-pedantic take is that poisonous is correct, but imprecise. There’s lots of ways to be poisoned. Ingestion, inhalation, dermal contact, and, yes, injection. But it’s all poison.
A poison is a harmful substance. A toxin is a poison created by a living organism. A Venom is a toxin that’s delivered subcutaneously.
Poison is the parrallelogram to venom’s square.
Don’t be so pendantic!
I initially missed out the “to” in the Killer’s sentence, and I was like “but they’re correct, though”
I’d be much more bothered by the fact that there is no venomous or poisonous snake in the world that could swallow a whole adult human. The only ones that could arguably get close to food of that size are all constrictors.
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