Nonviolence can Defeat an Empire, but is no Match for Ants

Measures of nonviolence can defeat an empire, but are no match for a colony of red ants. Gandhi was able to over throw British control and gain independence for India using forms of nonviolent protest. However the Buddhist monks of Hong Hock See Temple are having much less success at ridding their temple of ants. They firmly believe that they can not kill any living thing, which left them with very little options when a colony of red ants moved into their worship space. The best they could do was use a vacuum cleaner to suck up the ants, then release then out side. No surprise that didn't work.

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