Would I get bad Karma if I killed a bug?

[NY Disney fan]

Before you laugh at me, this morning I killed a spider underneath my staircase and I immediately felt bad afterwards. I know some vermin carry bacteria and such but they are living things. Could I get bad karma if I kill an insect (on purpose)?

 

[Robinrs]

Then I'm going straight to.... cause any crawling creature will think I'm the TERMINATOR!

 

[beckmrk04]

I hope not.


But there is a sect of monks, I believe, that strive not to kill/harm any living creature and they use brooms to sweep in front of them when they walk, so they can move the bugs out of the way.

SO, if they got it right, then a lot of us are screwed.

I feel bad when I kill a bug too, sort of. But, I just don't want creep-crawly things in my house. I don't go hang out in their webs or ant hills or whatever. That would be rude.

 

[mamamary]

I hope you won't get bad karma cause if you do then I surly will. Woke up this morning to find a bunch of ants at my kitchen garbage. Where the heck did they all come from. Yuck!! Needless to say I've been spraying bug killer for 10 minutes to get them all (maybe a little exaggerated). Hate bugs!

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

If so, I am doomed!

Imagine what happens to all of those spiders, flies, june bugs, etc. that I have sucked up with the central vacuum!!! **poof**

 

[TinkerbEllnor]

yeah, but your karma will come back at you in the form of rain, so I wouldn't worry about it too much

 

[MdmMim]

I try not to kill bugs. If there's an insect in our house, I get a glass and a piece of cardboard, then scoop him up and release him outside. That's how I was brought up--I can't help it.

If I accidentally step on a bug, I feel so bad.

 

[Smileybug]

I try not to kill bugs. If there's an insect in our house, I get a glass and a piece of cardboard, then scoop him up and release him outside. That's how I was brought up--I can't help it.

If I accidentally step on a bug, I feel so bad.

We must be long lost cousins. I just took a spider outside.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I try not to kill bugs. If there's an insect in our house, I get a glass and a piece of cardboard, then scoop him up and release him outside. That's how I was brought up--I can't help it.

If I accidentally step on a bug, I feel so bad.

Same here. If it's a small spider, it's welcome to stay and eat all the bugs it can. If it's larger than I am comfortable with, it is politely asked to leave and I help it out the door.

My DH gets upset when the boys catch bugs...he won't kill anything. I have a short list of bugs/pests that don't survive around me in the house ..Cockroaches, fllies, black widows, scorpions, and anything that choses to bite me first.

 

[Chicago526]

I never kill bugs outside but once they are indoors, all bets are off. The only ones I catch-and-release are crickets. It's good luck and besides, they don't hurt anything!

 

[Kath2003]

I wouldn't have killed it, but since you felt instantly bad I doubt karma will kick your behind too hard. I'd have scooped it up and taken it outside.

 

[bookgirl]

Karma is quantitative. Little bug, little karma....just do something good it'll even out in the end.


(big beliver in karma...however I don't like anything that has venom, crawls or can bite me, so I step on them all over the place....crickets I take outside, spiders become splots on the bottom of a shoe )

 

[cteddiesgirl]

I don't worry about it. If it's in the house, it doesn't belong so it goes splat.

Outside the house, I don't care as long as the don't bother me. But it might get shooed away.

 

[breezy1077]

I hope not too.

I'm the same way, I feel badly about it, but I kill 'em anyway.

 

[C.Ann]

If that's how it works, I'm in for some MAJOR bad karma!! Nothing creepy, crawly gets by me indoors without being squished!

 

[froggygrrrl]

Before you laugh at me, this morning I killed a spider underneath my staircase and I immediately felt bad afterwards. I know some vermin carry bacteria and such but they are living things. Could I get bad karma if I kill an insect (on purpose)?

This is the EXACT reason I refuse to kill anything, indoors or out. I have the (slightly) irrational fear that if I kill a spider, then 10,000 of its closest friends will seek me out. If someone's gonna have bad karma...let it be DH!

 

[Serena]

The karma was bad for the bug that dared come into your house.

Once it's in my house, it's doing a kamakaze run. It's just a matter of time before I let it die a hero.

 

[olena]

If that's the case, then I've got loads of bad karma. My philosophy is that I see them crawling in my house and they don't have rent money, they have to go.

 

[bumbershoot]

Before you laugh at me, this morning I killed a spider underneath my staircase and I immediately felt bad afterwards. I know some vermin carry bacteria and such but they are living things. Could I get bad karma if I kill an insect (on purpose)?

Hubby is Korean Buddhist, and that is how he feels.

Then again, MIL is a practicing Korean Buddhist, and she is omnivorous, so she doesn't seem to care about the animals she eats, and I'm pretty sure bugs aren't allowed to set foot in her home.

The karma was bad for the bug that dared come into your house.

Once it's in my house, it's doing a kamakaze run. It's just a matter of time before I let it die a hero.

And that's pretty much how I feel about it.

I'm still getting crud from our son about killing a spider months ago. He forgets that as soon as he figured out there was a spider (I hate them and go all paralyzed, but I had to suck it up b/c it was in the bedroom (which I did NOT tell DS, I told him it was in the bathroom) so I was doing what I needed to do but was in a cold sweat and was shaking) that he jumped up on a chair and started shrieking "save me, save me, protect me, save me!!!!!" He was making me cry from his reaction (b/c I felt bad for him and b/c I felt like an idiot for showing him my fear) and wanted to cling to me, which made it hard for me to get back into the bathroom to dispatch the thing!

Anyway, I feel that I have little tiny itsy bitsy signs all around the condo, telling 6 and 8 legged things to stay out, and if they choose to ignore it, they've signed their own execution orders.


But when I make hubby be the enforcer, unless I watch over him, he generally just puts them outside. He doesn't want the karma.

 

[SadieG]

I have a short list of bugs/pests that don't survive around me in the house ..Cockroaches, fllies, black widows, scorpions, and anything that choses to bite me first.

I agree and add millipedes, earwigs and anything else that gives me the
ebee-jee-bees. (I'm sure that's not spelled right)

The karma was bad for the bug that dared come into your house.

Once it's in my house, it's doing a kamakaze run. It's just a matter of time before I let it die a hero.