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My point is that crabs and grasshoppers are separated by 400 million years of evolution, and are extremely different from one another, just like fish and people are extremely different from one another. I'm trying and failing to understand your point, and don't at all get what you're using the word "bugs" to describe
The original post used the word bugs, not insects. (Although the pic does seem to show only insects, I'd interpret that as a stock image fail)
Bugs are such a wide group already that to me it seems reasonable to include branches separated by 400 million years of evolution, much the way 'fish' is such a wide group that by a scientifically reasonable definition it can include all vertebrates as a subgrouping.
Sure, people are fish and insects are crstaceans, but that has nothing to do with edibility.
Indeed.
I still don't understand what point you're trying to make...
I think the comic is pointing out a funny hypocrisy that we usually have between land bugs and sea bugs, but they are all bugs.