AlchoPwn
Public Service is my Motto.
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It's kinda preferable to trap them alive rather than kill them, if you can. Just release them in a wood or forest somewhere. No doubt they will end up as a snack for an owl or fox, but at least you won't have bad karma.
Hmm... How do you know they aren't reborn as a rat because they were a terrible person, in which case killing them might be a good thing? Or, within Buddhism, it could be argued that killing a rat places them back into a rebirth situation where you may have done them a favor if they have been a virtuous rat. It may be that killing a hundred thousand rats in a lifetime will grant you a rebirth as a ruling monarch at a time of war. The teaching is that violence begets violent karma after all. I hope you enjoyed my use of Buddhist casuistry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuistry