if buddists believe it is wrong to kill any living creature?
551143
Not all Buddhists observe this rule, but those who do would probably either shave or just tolerate the creatures.\n\nThat would be tough, having to endure every bug that decides to wander in your house or live on you.  The real question is, what does a Buddhist do when he gets a parasite or crabs?  Would a true Buddhist remove a tick from his body?
936771
It's the same reason you do not follow the teachings of the Buddha. Diff'rent strokes buddy.
609095
Why wouldn't it be?\nUsing contemporary moral standards:\nSeems that most people have no moral qualms about eating animals.  Vegans and vegetarians are a very, very small minority.\nSaving a human life is generally agreed to be a high moral good.\nTherefore, killing a pig to take its heart valve and transplant it into a human being who otherwise would die, appears to have a higher moral good than killing a pig so that people can eat cheeseburgers with bacon.\n\nOf course, if one wants to use other assumptions the results would be different.  If one assumes that all life is equally precious, whether human or a pig, one would find killing the pig for either reason to be wrong.\n\nIn short, like most questions of morality, it depends on your starting assumptions.
1046771
It's not. For me, personally any type of killing is wrong. Doesn't matter what your "reasoning" is, it's wrong.
1066366
yes you can kill harmfull creatures of god, and so that to protect your self, and others, but it would be better if you could throw the small creature away and not to kill it.\nTHAT is if you can.
307674
First I am against killing animals, but if they become a threat to humans or to other animals (due to overpopulation), may answer is yes.
904178
not at all. i dont believe in killing just for the sake of having a big trophy to brag about. but for having food it is totally acceptable. and in certain parts of the country the animal population has to be thinned out. i live in the ozarks and the population of deer get so thick it is common to cause crashes in town. as long as the animal is being used to feed people it is acceptable to slaughter it. but only in a humane way.
846712
I think its sad.\n\nEvery animal expresses love and understands fear.\n\nHumans are out of control on this earth. \n\nWe are more like a parasite than an intelligent being.\n\nIntelligent beings don't abuse and overwork their resources until there is nothing left.\n\nLike the ant and the grasshopper... we are ravenous like the grasshopper when we should be conserve and ration like the ant... with our air, with our metals, with our food resources, with the animals in the world....\n\nBut your right, no living creature should live in a cage until it's body grows to become a part of that cage, be forced fed, tortured and forced to watch its fellow specie die before it is brutally murdered.\n\nThey know pain and murder. Kill a cow in front of another cow and see if it doesn't understand.
629724
Some people do care about animals but its the ones that dont or dont know that  are hurting the enviroment. The people that do know what people are doing to animals dont take action and do something to stop it. Those who dont either dont know whats going on about these problems or just dont care. killing animals that are on the verge of extinction is illegal but people do it anyway. what are people doing to stop this?  People have a job to do to keep these animals alive. Are you doing yours? Or do you care less about the balance of nature? people should be doing there part. Please try to do yours or the balance of nature is affected by what humans do! So are you going to do your role or do you care less about what happens?
351677
we are the only species that kills purely for the sake of killing. I feel like it must be that weve advanced too far for our own good. If we lived in relation to the earth and the universe then we may not be so selfish and insane. I think people dont see God because of all the religion.
900997
Isn't it wrong to condone murdering ANYONE?
605729
Kill them first before it kills you all..\nthat women menaka has nothing to do...\nlet her keep all those dogs in her house..\nrather then letting them into our areas...sad no one wants to talk about it in India...or no one dare to talk about it.
61973
Lin Chi isn't condoning murder, he is using a metaphor to explain the nature of Buddhism. Don't believe what some one says, no matter how holy they are, just because they say it. Listen to their words and then explore them yourself.... Kill Buddha.\n\n"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!\n    If you meet the patriarchs or the arhats on your way, kill them too...\n    Bodhidharma was an old bearded barbarian...\n    Nirvana and Bodhi are dead stumps to tie your donkey to.\n    The sacred teachings are only lists of ghosts, sheets of paper fit for wiping the pus from your boils."
867281
Stop being hypocrites. We do the exact same to other naimals just as intelligent as dogs. But because they aren't so 'cute', it's not something that really bothers us. You mention the suffering of dogs, but don't forget the cruel treatment of countless other animals.\n\nI agree that it is wrong, but it's not only dogs we should be concerned about.
1082086
Here is the real question you should be asking:\n\nWhy do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?\n\nDeduct my answer to your question from my question.
991865
What sad answers.  Do you realize how unfeeling and cold your answers are.  How can you pass a law and make it OK for some doctor to puncture a hole in your babies head, suck its brains out and kill him or her and then pull the dead child out and tell me that is acceptable.  You are the same people that want to put someone in jail for being inhumane to animals.  Now I think they are both wrong but I do think the first is a sin.  That same child once it is born alive if you smothered it because you did not want it you would go to jail.  Now tell me what is the difference.  Either way it is a living human being.  A child in the womb cannot live if the mother does not take care of herself and eat properly in other wards you have to take care of it, a baby has to be taking care of by the mother or someone who cares.  They are both still life, why should it be legal to throw an unborn child away.  The funny thing is there was a man here in NC that took an animal,cut the unborn pups out and killed them the out cry was loud.  But those same people who were appalled at this would not blink when the same thing is done to a human being.  \nPlease people wake up, you should not have the RIGHT to kill a child any child.  If you do not want children use a condon, the pill, abstanance & if you get pregnant take care of that child and when it is born give it up for adoption, they at least deserve that.
578885
Danielcra, the right winger, is a prime example of that stunted thinking.  \n\nHe wrote that we care more about trees and birds than humans, as if trees and birds are not as important as human life.  \n\nHe and the other idiots do not realize that without birds and more importantly trees - humans will be extinct too.  \n\nIt is this narrow imbecilian thinking that is destroying the environment and may even encourage new or more virulent diseases as natural controllers/predators die off.