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11. I would submit that it's respect for cockroaches and vermin that especially mark the buddhist POV.

Sun Jan 11, 2015, 12:10 PM

Jan 2015

It's easy to love a cute puppy, or to feel bad for a bear.

For Westerners, and others, there's a cultural subset of species that are dishonored for various reasons: flies, roaches, snakes, and spiders for example.

Indeed, many carry diseases and others are just pests, but all are critters with lives.

It's a bit like people, actually.

We want to try to love each and everyone, and especially those who are annoying and even dangerous.

They need love the most.

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a sincere question [View all] steve2470 Dec 2014 OP

I have similar reactions to some humans. rug Dec 2014 #1

lol yes me too steve2470 Dec 2014 #2

......... trusty elf Dec 2014 #3

lol I don't mind steve2470 Dec 2014 #4

I don't consider your question trivial in the least. TM99 Dec 2014 #5

Thanks steve2470 Dec 2014 #6

Is a cockroach considered a sentient being? I thought that was where we get to draw the line. Maraya1969 Jan 2015 #9

How to we draw that line? TM99 Jan 2015 #10

I struggle with it too. What happens when insects or rats infest the house you live in? liberal_at_heart Dec 2014 #7

Noam Chomsky made an interesting point about this: "there's a slow expansion of the moral sphere" bananas Dec 2014 #8

I would submit that it's respect for cockroaches and vermin that especially mark the buddhist POV. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #11