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I Surrender

I usually don't like rodents, but this short video clips touched a soft spot of mine. I have been a practising Buddhist for years, but I have always had a skeptical or agnostic view of Buddhist practices. For instance, the Buddha taught us to refrain from killing, but when we put things in perspective, how is that really possible in the real world? It's just like asking a cat not to kill a mouse, it might seem noble and righteous to preach that violence is wrongful, but a cat is just being a cat when it attacks a mouse. It's just not reasonable to ask cats to make friends with mice, it's against their very basic predator nature. Yet, if I put myself in the shoes of a mouse such as the little dude in this video clip, it is so miserable and sad to be the victim as the cat has no mercy and no remorse when it attacks the mouse. Oh, how I wish the cat would spare the mouse's life! I sympathise so much with the mouse, and I hope that I can intervene and do something benef

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