"On your second point I would argue that people who persist in believing in myth over fact, even when the fact is staring them in the face, cannot be considered to be emotionally 'well'."
My post was in the context of there aren't "facts" to prove or disprove a myth, thus the myth stays as it is.
I can give you a good example from personal experience and I had posted these at least twice already, and many might say what have I just eaten, it is that I had on one occasion seen a spirit, and on another occasion it was a brother who saw a hairy arm in the afternoon, I was there but I did not se that arm. So, my belief in the existence of spirits stay and I don't really care what others say.
On the matter of the slugs and snails, I would not have stepped on them and extinguished their lives.
