[header] How to keep buddhist precepts [title] Refrain from killing and taking life. [step] The first part is easy enough to look at, but the second part refers to kidnapping, imprisonment etc. For this precept the goal here is simply to avoid harming anything. 
[substeps] Think about this: the important thing to be aware of is choice. You have the ability to both kill it, do nothing, or let it go.