A mother whose neighbor refused to get rid of her daughter’s head lice was left horrified by her response when she informed her about the hair problem.
Taking to Reddit, the mom explained that her 7-year-old daughter is best friends with a young girl next door, whose parents are vegan.
“That’s fine; we respect their choice and even make special food when River comes to play. My problem is that recently this otherwise delightful child was at our house and scratching furiously … and I discovered she was crawling with head lice,” she wrote.
The mom said that she casually mentioned it to the girl’s mother believing that she would do something about it.
“To my surprise, this woman said that not only did she know about her daughter’s condition but refused to do anything about it,” the frustrated mom continued.
“Vegans don’t kill any living things, is the reasoning. My neighbor told me she was in the practice of combing the lice and nits into the garden where they had a chance of survival.
“My jaw hit the floor.”
The mom said that she doesn’t want to separate the children but she disagrees with the idea of combing the lice and nits into the garden.
But the neighbor insisted that head lice do not fly and can only live on the human scalp and drink human blood, adding that leaving them on the grass ‘condemns them to a slow, parched death.’
Reddit users were shocked by the neighbor’s reasoning, with one person commenting: “I don’t even know if lice are sentient but regardless, we have a right to defend ourselves.”
Another said: “Parasites for me are free game for unaliving.”
A third added: “Living life with a parasite infestation in your body crosses that line.”
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