Relative ranking of the four types of persons

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Best motivation for actions and non-actions?

This is too much. Buddhism is incompatible with this. It’s that every single quantum results are predetermiend from the big bang. Too much. It’s enough to see that A always causes B. Suffering results from breaking precepts. There’s a story in the commentaries of an arahant who got beaten to death by a lay disciple in the lay disciple’a home that he goes for alms everyday. Why? Because he wanted to protect the parrot who swallowed the gem which was the property of the king. The lay disciple …

My reply to your scenario is to look at what that arahant bravely did. Note: this is not to encourage suicide by being beaten to death by others. Please try to not get yourself in such situations in the first place.