I imagine it must be for a crab like bobbing for apples is for kids, except for the crab it’s a matter of life or death.
Ain’t easy being a stone crab, especially since they might have to go through this double amputation more than once.
But don’t let that spoil your enjoyment of their sweetly delicious meat.
Is it better to be a stone crab gnawing at food, if you can catch it, until your claws regrow, or be a Maryland blue crab or a lobster (or a shrimp or almost any other food aniimal) and have one shot at life, then the lights go out? If slaughtered humanely, the animal doesn’t know the lights are about to go out, and doesn’t suffer.
But then think of clams and oysters, whose fate is to be eaten alive.
I didn’t mean to spoil your appetite, really I didn’t.