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.
cause any crawling creature will think I'm the TERMINATOR! 
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If someone's gonna have bad karma...let it be DH!
