When I was growing up, I read about a sect in India that had such reverence for life that they always wore cloths over their mouths to prevent swallowing flies even accidentally.
Years later, I lived near and bicycled through a region with a lot of dairy farms. The first time I rode hard enough to need to breathe through my mouth, I swallowed a fly. Never did that again. I immediately became convinced that that sect in India wasn’t doing it out of reverence for life, they were doing it because swallowing flies is nasty.
When I was growing up, I read about a sect in India that had such reverence for life that they always wore cloths over their mouths to prevent swallowing flies even accidentally.
Years later, I lived near and bicycled through a region with a lot of dairy farms. The first time I rode hard enough to need to breathe through my mouth, I swallowed a fly. Never did that again. I immediately became convinced that that sect in India wasn’t doing it out of reverence for life, they were doing it because swallowing flies is nasty.