May 3, 2009
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Slug Karma
In my last post, I mentioned putting salt on a slug that I had captured.
Putting salt on the slug would give it a painful death. The slug is still alive and I have him in captivity.
I received a few comments I want to highlight:
“Don’t be cruel…take him outside!
Or else God has a salt shaker with your name on it, Dan!!!” NightCometh
“Live because you don’t want somebody to end your life for no apparent reason.“ M_S_T_A
“Let it live, or else God’s gonna payback to you. We don’t want slug flu in the future kthnxbye.” Secret_Qt
“There should not be a question. Let it go. One day your life will be in another creature’s hands and I hope it will remember what you did for this slug.” WondersCafe
“LMAO you want to SALT IT?
Karma, man. Karma.”Olyachka
Do you believe that salting a slug will actually cause bad things to happen in your life?
Comments (165)
YOU IZ GOIN TO HELL
kthxbai
if u were the slug and the slug was you, it would’ve pwned you already with salt by now
I say you should find more of them, put sugar on them, and make a cake.
yep… probably. i dont believe in karma.. yet i believe in karma. just dont take the chance dan, dont take it.
i only said let it die because i knew the majority would be like “awwww let the poor thing live!!!!!”
karma.
It’s ok because slugs have no soul. Salt it! Salt it! Salt it!
Is this like a comparison to abortion?
Really I could careless what you decide to do with the slug… I just wonder why you even have him in captivity. Are you bored? Curious? Devious? Depressed? Entertained? Inquiring minds want to know. I’m a psych major – can’t help it. Certain serial killers showed early signs along these lines, you know : ) I’ll watch for you on the news… : )
No. My parents used to give me those huge containers of salt to go around the garden and off the slugs. I was fascinated by it.
Not karma per se so much as that harming another harms you.
@odiado - Well, you’re gay, and we all know gay people always go to Hell.
@SerenaDante - Ha. That’s not a bad idea.
who cares. it’ll eat holes through your plants. you could put shiny pennies in the jar with it so it electrocutes itself slowly to death.
Well, let us think that way. To be honest, no one knows for sure. thanks for linking my comment.
@Dare2BDiferentt - Hey, you don’t have to tell all of Xanga I’m gay, buddy.
No, but I also believe that there are moral reasons for not causing another creature to needlessly suffer.
Hahahaha! Do you know how many times I’ve salted a slug???
NO.. DO IT ALREADY!!
Also, this seems like a WWJD? kind of situation.
All I’m saying is, when the slug cyborgs of the future come to destroy all humanity, you will be their first target.
I find if I DON’T put salt on them, they are rather bland.
I’m saying that the universe has a funny way of biting you on the ass for being a dick.
Only if you add a little garlic, pepper and olive oil and eat it.
Hm, dunno.
I don’t know if it will cause bad things to happen directly – bad things happen no matter what you do…but I do know that hurting an innocent creature, slug or not, is wrong.
No, but it’s very cruel.
I don’t think it will cause bad things to happen to you… but, I think that a person who has the kind of personality requred to deliberately torture a creature to death is also the kind of person that by their lifestyle may tend to create other bad situations in their lives. Cruelty is not an endearing quality.
There’ll be a black cloud of doom hanging over your head if you salt it. You’ll feel guilty for all of eternity!
Actually, I’d feel horribly guilty if I salted a slug. I feel guilty about killing bugs. I just found an ant on my kitchen floor and took it outside with a little piece of cracker.
@saintvi - Does it slide down or will I choke on it?
it is said that you can judge a person’s character by how they treat inferiors.
Seriously?
You’re supposed to be a Theologian, Dan. I’m sorely disappointed.
No, but it might make it taste better.
It’s “dharma,” not “karma.” Karma is the belief that something GOOD will happen to you as a reward. Dharma is the belief that something BAD will happen to you as a punishment. That might be a bit of an oversimplification, but the point is, that’s the wrong word. And it annoys me.
That must be why the brick fell on my head after getting rid of those head lice.
Well, you’ll probably feel guilty over the matter, which could lead to negative things happening in your life.
-David
@LifeNeedsProtection - The olive oil makes it slide down, like raw oysters.
you reap what you sow… I think karma works in the sense that when you do bad things, bad events are attracted to you, in a more or less logical fashion. If you deal drugs, you’re placing yourself in a bad part of town and interacting with bad sorts of people. It’s that sort of principle, only the relations between your actions and your fate aren’t always so obvious… but they’re there.
I know I’d feel really guilty about killing the slug, but I feel guilty if I kill any kind of living creature. It just doesn’t seem fair for me to take a life.
My grandmother would send me out to her garden with a bucket of salt to kill the suckers, so I have to say doooo ittttt. Karma is just an excuse to not do the things you really want to do.
@RaVnR - well said
I don’t believe in karma. Lol, people are making a big deal out of killing a slug.
yeah i would say so…
dont you have anything better to blog about?
set it free and let it eat your vegetable garden all away =D
I sure hope not since I’ve killed many a spiders… mosquitoes…ants… fruit flies… etc…
Our God is a vengeful one.
The only bad thing about it is that you’ll have less salt.
*straight face* You’re going to hell.
it could eat you?
yes. and you’d deserve it.
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I say… keep it as a pet and feed it if you aren’t letting it go. At least it would be a good conversation point.
<3
Every single night the slugs have a party on my front porch. Just considering the salt makes me feel guilty.
I do have this funny idea of a Far Side rendition of God salting you Dan. If you’re asking whether or not you should salt the slug, you probably already know it’s a bad idea.
When I was a kid, I once witnessed my grandpa cut a slug in half using a pair of garden scissors. It was disgusting and I almost barfed. My grandpa hates slugs because they eat his plants… he also smashed a beautiful caterpillar once, for the same reason. I find it interesting though that nobody would be opposed to smashing a cockroach, whereas a butterfly killers would easily be called evil…lol
the question is: why would you want to put salt on it in the first place? is there any particular reason besides wanting to watch it die? if not, let it go, man. it’s just a poor little slug who probably wants to slug you. lol.
Put it in a ring of salt and explain what you’re doing. That way, when it tries to escape, we will know you caught a suicidal slug.
You’ll feel guilty. And if not, I will be disappointed in you. And my disappointment in you WILL make you feel guilty.
Probably not, but its still a pretty cruel thing to do. Plus, what kind of example are you showing your kids? You’ve pretty much captured the thing and now you want to torture it to death? What you want your sons to do?
No. If it’s like that, then we should all never swat flies, kill spiders or step on bugs, or use ant spray.
I rather keep him until he looks ready enough to take him outside again. O.o I love nature, just rather not let it die keeping it also.
But why do people have to be mean and salt it?
~ Luigi
I believe in Karma. Somehow, someway “stuff” gets back to people in a lesser or greater degree.
Jus step on it…BAREFOOT.
I don’t believe in karma in the sense of “if you do x, x WILL happen back to you specifically because you did that!” however, i do believe in it in the more conceptual sense that you bring into your life what you put out. if you’re a douche, people tend to treat you like a douche, which brings problems into your life which can be indirectly associated with your doucheyness.
As for the slug, well I wouldn’t personally have the heart to do it and would implore you to save it, but I doubt that it will lead to eminent doom. you never know though, butterfly effect, maybe someone will see you kill it and think worse of you, or maybe you’ll feel really bad, or maybe you won’t feel bad and will slowly move up the food chain until you realize you have no problem killing people, who knows, life is crazy. you reap what you sow… in general… usually
WHOOOO. I was quoted.
You didn’t mention the whole slug Queen/slug army thing, did you?
I don’t think bad things would happen to you just because of the slug, but it definitely would be entertaining… just once.
All this over a slug???
Really???
I don’t think killing a slug is going to cause bad things to happen in your life.
But it is just a slug. Let it go. Are you keeping it in the house? I hope not, bugs should not be in the house, unless they are your pets, then you have to take care of them. You can’t slowly kill your pets. That’s not a very good thing to do.
Probably not…its a slug.
Salting a slug would be there’s one less slug in the entire population of slugs.
It would probably be gross, too.
Whew… although, salting a slug does have an interesting reaction….
Hmmm… I do believe in karma, so I’m gonna advise against cruelly tormenting the slug.
I’m with Dare2BDiferentt‘s idea: slug cake!
mmmm tasty
Well, it won’t reinforce positive things in your life, but technically, no. Salting a slug, if that’s the only mean thing you do, won’t cause Karma.
I hope not. I know that when I was little we did that a lot.
Although I do believe in karma, that’s not why I think salting a slug will cause bad things to happen in your life. I think a person that goes through with salting a slug (or hurting any other innocent, defenseless, living being) has problems that they need to fix. And by ignoring those problems and going through with needless, senseless acts of violence only prolongs their issues and causes them to worsen.
If you can hurt a living thing without any reason, I think that says something about your character, and about the life that you’re going to live.
It’s not even about that. You’re being cruel.
I think bad things will happen regardless, but it ain’t no excuse to kill the thing, duuuude.
Even children, who are supposedly innocent, destroy ant hills and pour salt on slugs — not only for amusement, but to learn and observe how they scatter and writhe in pain. Sick, isn’t it. But, that is what humans do, we observe and we learn.
If you killed that slug, you better watch out for its family that could come after you for revenge.
Just bring whatever animal it is that eats slugs into your home. Let nature take it’s course. The animal has a nice slug dinner, you are now sans-slug, and the balance of Karma has been restored.
@saintvi - snails are just slugs with houses anyway
Karma does not exist.
Also, I bet half those people don’t think twice before offing a roach or a rat, and those are also living beings… So what’s the issue?
Either way, don’t kill it. You’d still have to throw it out after you salted it, so you’d be doing 2x work.
No, not at all. And technically, a slug isn’t smart enough to feel pain. It does everything by instinct. So if you salted it, it wouldn’t be painful, it would just be interesting.
I’m impressed that you took something as retarded as salting a slug and made it into a blog debate lol. *applaud*
Now salt the thing and watch it melt away like the wicked witch of the west…..
@another_rebel_without_a_cause - That may be the funniest comment i’ve read so far lol
put it on your pizza, hell it couldn’t be any worse than an anchovie.
I heard a psych professor once tell our class that if you cause pain to animals it’s a sign that you will enact violence on human beings.
Murderers are known animal abusers at first.
Don’t be a future murderer Dan, I don’t think you can use Xanga from jail.
I’m sure you’ve killed a spider, or an ant. Why’s a slug different?
JUST SALT IT
@Beauty_In__The_Break_Down your response reminds me of the discussion in English class
For those that said: dont salt it let it live / karma / slugs has soul
Trigger the discussion in class about MICROBES / LIVING ORGANISMS – the are living things too
Yet we are killing them* when we put on hand sanitizer though we cant see it
i think those who say, “save it” are full of rotten shit for couple of reasons.
1. I’m pretty sure these people have no remorse for killing flies, roaches, or other pests.
2. out of those people, how many would actively promote saving of HUMAN lives? They tell you to save the slugs because they happen to come across it. but I’m sure the bulk of those people are also ignorant to the fact that there are PEOPLE dying around the world.
@EilisAngelos - I agree!
what does the slug did to you?
If you really have no apparent reason, JUST LET IT GO.
what harm could it give to you?
Karma rules
I believe in Karma.
This is just funny to me though…
I think you could draw comparisons no matter which way you toss the matter. Bad things happen to everyone. That’s life. It’s up to you if you think they’re happening because
A) God has a perverse sense of humor.
B)That’s just the way it goes.
C)Karma is going to end you for salting that slug.
What do you believe?
I don’t think it will have either a positive or negative impact on your life. But I do think that being disrespectful of another creatures life for no purpose to reason, is a nasty, stupid, and psychopathic thing to do. You don’t want to be the Kenny Glen of slugs do you?
@jai_ko - omg, really? People are dying around the world? I live in such a tiny little bubble, and you just burst it, my arrogant little friend.
You people don’t know the REAL meaning of karma. Karma only effects you in the NEXT life. It’s a word stemmed from the Hindu and Buddhist religion. (I am Buddhist.) Regardless of the horrible things you do in this life, according to karma, it will only hurt you in your next life by giving you the body of something shittier than human. If you do ONE small bad deed, it won’t hurt you, but the many small bad things you do will add up. It’s not about doing something bad, it’s about how you live your life, what way you affect others in your life, and how you treasure your life. That’s what will affect your karma.
It’s a fact, though, (thinking aside from Karma & the next life, etc) that making bad choices, will take you down a difficult road. Killing a slug for fun probably won’t ruin your life, but commiting homocide WILL ruin your life, because it will directly affect you by your bad decision. In that case, it’s a domino effect. For example: once you do this, this will happen, and so on. It becomes a cycle.
If killing the slug will ruin your life directly for any reason, (like it’s your boss’ slug, and he asked you to take care of it, and you get fired for killing it) then that’s when you should be afraid. Don’t believe people’s superstition and misunderstanding of religion-based terms. I hate when people talk about karma, because more than half the time, they don’t know what the fcuk they’re talking about.
** In Buddhism (I’m not sure about other religions), we relate karma to the motive of the action, not how the action is seen in general. If you did a “bad” deed, but for a good intention, then you will not be affected by karma. Say you stole someone’s car, but you did it to save someone else’s life, it wouldn’t be counted against you by karma rules.
@odiado - No he doesn’t. We, or at least i, kinda figured it out.
You remind me of Myjustin(= the most awesome person in the world and my best friend, who also happens to be gay and snarky) though, and it makes me want to be your friend.
No. I don’t believe in karma.
@lonelywanderer2 - ha, you gave me a giggle there.
But Dan, to answer your question, No, but it might cause harm to your plants. Slugs are very beneficial to your garden, they eat decaying vegetation and fungus, as well as animal feces. yum!
For all we know you salting that slug could mean terrible things. Maybe one day you’ll wake up in a world where giant slugs rule. “We know what you did to our great brother [insert slug's name], and now you must pay!” Then they’ll run over you with their slimy sticky bottoms.
I certainly would not want that.
Then again, maybe nothing will happen.
Who knows. Life’s already going to send nasty shit your way anyway.
But it is kind of unnecessary to inflict pain on the slug, Dan. Unnecessary means there’s options.
I believe it can, yes.
Don’t add needless suffering to the world, dan. You can let the thing go and be done with it.
Also, holding him captive is pretty weird. That’s how serial killers get started.
well Dan, i believe that every action we make has an opposite and equal reaction… it will always come back to us… not in a similar way maybe (your not a slug, who would salt you), but maybe in such a way that would remind us of the things that we have done in the past… that is if you are sensitive about it… otherwise, youd just dismiss it as mere luck or misfortune…
they’ll haunt u in ur dreams
I think slugs should die along with other slimy things like frogs.
but about your question, No. we just like blaming bad things that happen to us on things we have no control over. Like Karma.
Maybe not, but it’s cruel to wildlife. . .
Yes.
I believe in karma, I don’t know if anything bad will happen when you salt a slug–but it’s still fun to do! More salt please!
Then I should be dead by now for all the bugs I’ve ever killed.
@Alexandria_Nyx - Aww, thanks!
It’s just a slug…
No. I’d take the thing outside, but that’s just me. They are rather disgusting creatures. What is their purpose anyway?
I hope not cause I’ve a-salted many slugs in my lifetime. But not any longer. I think about its prolonged suffering, and then I just leave it alone.
What about beer? My parents always used to set out pie tins of beer to attract the slugs. They’d climb in and drown drunk. Now that’s the way to go.
I’m not saying it would or would not, but it’s not nice to just kill it. You shouldn’t harm other living things if you can help it.
Yawn.
there is no such thing as karma or bad juju or any of that crap.
@Dare2BDiferentt - ewwww *shudder*
When you DO salt it, make a vidoe and post it! It’s pretty cool, they look like they turn inside out!
I don’t think that you putting salt on a slug will directly cause you any personal harm.
I do think that the action of choosing to torture an innocent creature will come back on you, somehow.
If you saw a hurt dog laying in the road, would you run it over? No, you would feel awful for doing that.
So why is it different for a slug?
If you intentionally inflicted pain on another creature, then yes…you deserve it! That was cruel.
You know, I’ve never quite understood that. How could such an utterly undistinguished invertebrate survive hundreds of millions of years with such an obvious weakness? You’d think somewhere along the line there’d've been some kind of Great Saltshaker Incident that wiped out the species, or the foods the slug eats would develop some kind of salt-layered membrane to counter it or something. But no. Still around, and still painfully easy to defeat.
@hisnow - Listen to this person. She speaks wisdom.
Salt it, salt it, salt it! And do it slowly.
Maybe not, but I know that it would weigh heavily on my conscience. Poor slug, he’s probably just lost.
@AtheistInfidel - Actually, karma is probably the most scientifically sound religious idea out there, if you have the brain cells not to take it literally. Ever hear of the butterfly effect? That’s basically karma in a nutshell. If you go around screwing people over, people are going to screw you over back, because that’s just how people work. You can do bad things and not get caught, and those things in and of themselves will have no effect on the system, but your attitude is reflected in a minute way in everything you do. If you’re 3% more inclined to dish out negativity than the average person, over the course of your lifetime you will cause roughly 3% more perceived damage to society, and as a result 3% more of the people you encounter than average will, as it were, be inclined to return the favor. Of course, there are measures you can take to prevent this: strike it rich, learn to manipulate people, avoid forming lasting relationships with people, only pay attention to a few select close friends whom you treat well… but it’s still all part of the same system.
That’s karma. It’s statistics. Math. Not voodoo or bad juju or whatever.
Now, as to whether killing a slug would have a negative effect on Dan’s karma… that would depend if anyone finds out. Which, obviously, Dan blogging about it and all, would apply here. Unless, of course, he decides to lie about it…
@Omelettes - I agree with what you are saying which is basically that all actions have consequences. What I meant is that there is no magical force that causes negative or positive occurrences in your life based on your actions.
No and well I think your life flows by what you believe. You think negative, negative things come. If you’re positive then positive things come.
I think it’s something a lot of kids do.
I never did it, but if I had ever thought of it as a kid I probably would have. Slugs are slimy and creepy. >.<
@Dare2BDiferentt - Hahaha. I LOVE Slug Cake. Mmmmm.
Yes…its like crossing the path of a black cat. Which I did the other day. Its bad luck…ruins the old karma.
Actually, I’ve heard that putting salt on a slug will not cause it to die painfully. It will die, but it won’t suffer. Something about pain receptors…it will just…die. Maybe make a screamy noise, but that noise needn’t mean that it’s in pain. I’ve never done it, so I don’t know from experience.
Undoubtedly. I also think salting a slug is rather pointless; unless you’re a blood thirsty 10 year old.
new delicacy! do itttt >:D
If you are going to torture a creature for your own amusement, then you are a sick person. No matter how smaller or big, a bug is s living creature.. just remember that.
a*
Your intention at the time of causing suffering to the living being is what produces karma. When you’re a kid and you step on snails just to hear the squish, there is not much intention to do harm. As you grow older, if you have developed some wisdom you will realize that all living beings suffer.
Even the humblest creature desires not to suffer, will flee or curl up defensively when it percieves itself in danger. Knowing this, you do not cause harm to living beings. Basic Buddhism.
@AtheistInfidel - It’s funny, though; most people who subscribe to the idea of karma don’t believe that, either.
A lot of the people we think we disagree with actually think a lot like we do. It’s just a matter of different terminology. Or that’s what I think, anyway.
@Tiffanyy_Co - You know, chickens are confined in these nasty cramped little cages, hundreds of them cramped together in one cage that could probably barely accommodate 50 of them, and then they’re all killed and made into meat. Vegetables are sprayed with all kinds of pesticides; all those poor little gophers and crickets and locusts are killed just for trying to get a bite to eat. Cockroaches, if they’re unlucky enough to get spotted, enjoy a brief period of glee as they become the life of a party for about three seconds before being stomped mercilessly into the floor by someone’s platform shoes.
Do you eat meat? Do you eat vegetables? Do you go to parties?
You contribute to torture.
in our conventional reality all things are causes to effects. It is not necessarily ‘bad’ in a cosmic sense but things that are cruel breed cruel outcomes. In the west we try to point to awful people who have not suffered the consequences of their actions e.g. Pol Pot; but in an Eastern belief structure (you used Karma so I will assume you are asking in a Hindu/Buddhist/Jain etc context) these actions unfold in the “long run” or sometimes in the ‘short run’ all depending on your “Karmic” queue.
So, to use a concept: if you do bad, bad will arise from it (for you and the Other to which you committed it), the opposite of this is also true. However, it is not in the sense of most westerners believe it to be. Karma, if you use the term correctly, is a term that is married with the belief in reincarnation. Thus, it is possible, you will be like Pol Pot and never suffer the consequences of your actions (of this particular one of salting a slug) until a million lifetimes from now. But, it says, it is inevitable that you do just as it is inevitable in other cause/effect relationships e.g. if I reduce the temperature to less than 32 degrees and water is present it will freeze. Karma is not Theistically driven, it is ‘Natural” and everpresent. I put pressure on a door that is not locked, it opens, everything, they say, in this conceptual reality is ‘created’ by this Law; from the ridges in your digestion tract, to the interactions you have in this life. And according to such traditions you would hold your life dearly, or more dear, and your actions within if you knew how very precious your human life is. They say, “the numbers of people in the hells is like all the dust in all the universes, and those as ghost like that of the sand in as many world systems, and those that are animals (they believe bacteria is defined as such) like all the grains-to be a Human, if you were to count all of them in all the world systems, is like the dust upon a head of a pin”
To become a Human, with all the constituent benefits e.g. enough food, safety, health (life in a wealthy nation)-you would have had to been a saint for many lifetimes. An Eastern adherent would wonder, logically, why you would waste such good Karma in such an easily avoided moment (set the slug aside, put it in a batch of weeds etc)-or, if they were on a higher level: they would ask the duty of one benefitted with such great karma is heavy, to alleviate suffering, to alleviate woe, to bring happiness, and joy to as many as they can shine on like lamp in dark places-and a small way can be in assuaging the suffering of even the weakest of us. They would also believe that in the infinite manifestations of Lives, this very slug was once your Mother, or someone you cared deeply for and cared for you deeply, the meditative exercise is to remember that through visualization: their suffering is real, and it is a suffering that you have put on them.
So, that is a long answer that probably you were not asking for, but I hope helped in a small way.
Be wel
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IDK. I’d still put him outside tho.
No. I believe these bad things will happen to YOUR life.
If you’re going to kill a pest, at least give it a sudden death, instead of a slow painful burning death. That’s really mean. As for karma, I do believe in it.
I find the idea of you holding a defenseless creature in captivity while you publicly discuss methods of torturing it to death on a blog … disturbing in the extreme. At the very best, you have WAY too much time on your hands. Poor slug … I just hope, if you salt it, somebody returns the favor to you one day.
I have memories of my Dad doing this when me and my sister were little. haha .. Last summer I found one while I was nannying and said “Hey, I remember what to do” . .So I got some salt and was showing the boys how gross it was, they thought it was awesome.. Then all of a sudden I felt reeally reaally bad!! But there was no turning back, it had been done. Note: Nothing bad happened to me.
if the Karmic payback is going to be equivalent to the suffering that the slug went through, I wouldn’t want to risk it.
Wow, people are really taking this seriously. I say fill a cup with bleach and drop the slug in it. I haven’t the foggiest idea what will happen. Will you tell us?
You never know.
If you end up with high sodium levels and hypertension in 10 years, maybe the slug is getting his karmic revenge.
I did that when I was a teenager. The poor thing screamed its brains out. Wait, I salted its brains out.
No, seriously, though, I feel bad about it now. Don’t do it.
http://www.lolviral.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/saltmazeslug.png
LOL! You should totally recreate this! It’s the perfect compromise!!! He can save himself, if he’s skilled enough.
And, it will give you a great post.
Oh, you can do it with sugar and nobody will know.
You’re supposed to salt the slug after you fry it and before you eat it, not first thing!
I remember in 5th grade I was coming in from outside with my class and saw a spider on the ground. I stepped on it and some other kids and my teacher told me I was wrong and should not kill things like that. I was confused because I had always killed insects – flys, mosquitoes, roaches.. and I thought spiders were in that category. I felt that if a spider should not be killed then why did we think it was ok to kill the others. But of course I was in 5th grade so I kept my mouth shut.
I say it is nice if you let it live because we should never end life if we can affoid it; however, I admit there is a part of me that hates gross things like slugs, spider, and roaches and desires to get rid of them.
i don’t think karma has much to do with it.
but really, putting salt on that slug is a very cruel punishment for… nothing.
in your next life, you will reincarnate into a slug lol
No one knows. But I would err on the side of caution.
maybe? people do the salt over the shoulder for GOOD luck. maybe if you use salt in a bad way,bad things will happen..
Cats get into my basement. One of them had kittens. We didn’t discover that until the kittens were 4 weeks old. We called animal control. They came and the mother was away so they took the kittens by themselves. We still have to trap the mother, so we can reunite them and then kill them (actually I hope they can adopt the babies out at least – I would also prefer if they spayed the mother and let her go – but I think it was a different group we were supposed to call for that).
Karma? I hope not.
its scary and mean. I don’t like killing animals.
karma is karma, and a slug is a living creature!
I don’t think it would, but I would do it just because I want to see what will happen to it.
~Alexx
it’s the principle behind your actions. you harmed another creature, tortured it, caused it pain. etc. etc
do unto others..
There is always regular slug and snail poison.
I’ve no issues with killing them when they get out of hand and start eating up my plants. Otherwise, one or two random ones, hardly worth the bother.
No. I did it once when I was a kid…the slugs lived. They just went from being grossly white to being brownish, and they moved faster for a minute or two. No adverse side affects to me.
Duh. Like OMG. Of course. What slimes around… slimes around… AGAIN. Kthx bye
I salted a snail once… STILL haunts me in my dreams. STILL.
I’m headed to hell (if this isn’t it) anyway. I have indeed salted a slug lol.
nooo but i would never do it.
i swear to god i can’t even kill roaches.
every time i accidentally kill a bug i end up crying for days.
and salting slugs is horrible D:
-lily
That is very cruel.
Bad things happens to me even when I do good deeds. So, yeah I’m afraid what happen if I do something cruel to others in purpose. I don’t know what God will do to me next.
No, not really. But you’d think you would have gotten all the slug salting out of your system when you were a kid.
What kind of childhood did you HAVE? lol…