{"id":10010,"date":"2011-09-12T23:17:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2011-09-12T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:17:37","slug":"the-larger-the-worthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/09\/the-larger-the-worthier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Larger the Worthier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10011\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/120.jpg?resize=122%2C121\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/120.jpg?w=226&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/120.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">A reply to a Buddhist friend, who chose to get pest control to exterminate lice-like insects that plagued her house, which bit her family members badly too. They were traced to being centred on baby birds hidden in a pipe&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Very often, struggle as we might to see all sentient beings as equal,\u00a0we still need to make hard decisions at times when caught in a dilemma?\u00a0Most of us see lifeforms with bigger forms as more precious.\u00a0E.g. humans are more precious than birds, who are more precious than the lice.\u00a0I don&#8217;t know if it is too late,\u00a0but how about scooping to remove the insects elsewhere,\u00a0dismantling the pipe to rescue the birds?\u00a0Not easy, but worth it?<\/p>\n<p>The incident reminds me of this touching incident:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mpbvf.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/31\/teachings-asanga-maitreya-a-female-dog-and-the-maggots\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mpbvf.wordpress.com\/<wbr>2007\/01\/31\/teachings-asanga-<\/wbr><wbr>maitreya-a-female-dog-and-the-<\/wbr><wbr>maggots\/<\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reply to a Buddhist friend, who chose to get pest control to exterminate lice-like insects that plagued her house,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,129,102],"class_list":["post-10010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-compassion","tag-equanimity","tag-speciesism","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}