i'm not confused , i'm not convinced it's truly something they can't help. if more people cared to learn- and therefore teach their children- about "scary" but important parts of nature like spiders, i have a sneaking suspicion arachnophobia wouldn't be so common in the futureYour proposed answer to an involuntary psychological reaction is "just don't".
Shadows Over Loathing did it right; that game had both an Arachnophobia mode and and Arachnophilia mode that added more spiders.I need to give that game a try. I loved KoL though always sucked at it, and West of Loathing was fun but also never finished it.