To ask: what do Buddhists and vegans do about nits?

[flatdweller22]

Well?

I'm vegan and prefer not to harm anything but as others have said, when it comes to nits I see it as self defence.

My children have only had nits once (so far) and I used the conditioner and nitty gritty method.

For the last couple of years I spray their hair with water and lavender essential oil every morning and it seems to be working as a deterrent as we've made it through several nit outbreaks!

I would like to thank you for asking a question I often pontificate on with my BF when drunk on gin

Genuinely thought nobody was as weird as me. Feel both relieved and disappointed.

When i was doing dd's hair there were lots of little nits, dd 'oh mum please don't kill the baby ones'

are all vegans / buddhists anti abortion then? (serious question)

I have often wondered this. I know people who are veggie but kill slugs etc.

"are all vegans / buddhists anti abortion then? (serious question)"

The Dali Lama says that it must be viewed on each individual circumstance. It is generally considered the a abortion has moral and karmic consequences. Compassion for the Woman is the guiding principle on this, then it is a personal matter.

Veganism is about not practising speciesism. Abortion is generally considered a personal matter, again Compassion and respect is the guide.

You get extremists in all things, though, that lose sight of having to operate in the real, complex World.

Unless you eat like a strict Jain, you probably are happy to kill plants to eat them. You decided these species are ok to kill. Hence, except for the very strictist Jains, we are all speciest. Happy to selectively kill things for our benefit. Wrap it up in a self-defense or sustenance or consciousness argument if you like, but only the most strict Jains have moral high ground. Rest of us are just picking & choosing what we're comfortable with.

I'm a vegan, I'd kill them. It's all about doing the best you can to be kind to other creatures and minimise suffering but I wouldn't put above my own children's wellbeing.

Hinduism and Buddhism came from cultures where abortion isn't considered either a good or bad thing- as babies generally aren't considered to be alive until they're born.

I live in a Buddhist country. They kill mosquitos and head lice they same as everyone else. Don't know about the vegans...

We mix tea tree oil in with shampoo, about half the little bottle of tea tree oil, and.shake it into the shampoo. Then put a few drops of tea tree oil into a product to coat the hair, and it prevents nits. My ds is almost 6, and has made it through many lice outbreaks in school. He has never once caught nits thanks to this method.

Comb them into a jar and then decant the jar over an enemy's head?

Don't know if someone's already put this but 'Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.' That's off The Vegan Society website. It's not really practical to have nits is it! I'm a vegan and I have to use asthma medication which contain lactose and probably at one point has been tested on animals but again it's not going to be practical for me not to be able to breathe so it's just about doing what you can.

The Dalia lama isn't vegetarian let alone vegan. I've always been about this.
Vegans generally wouldn't live with head lice! They treat things like parasites causing harm. It's pretty unavoidable that. Can't really compare it to eating a pig or taking a cows milk meant for its baby. They are completely avoidable.

This has been fascinating!

I'm a vegan and whenever I had headlice I feed them well and let them breed and keep them happy. Same with the fleas.

Being a vegan is really that simplistic. I don't even eat plants because they have feelings too and if I was trapped on a desert island I would eat sand and die rather than eat the one miraculous animal trapped with me. I probably am so passionate about it because I'm delirious through lack of protein

I'm a vegan and I kill the fuckers. See also midges.

Vegan here and I would get rid of them because we live in a crowded society and pestilence is frowned upon. If we were crunchy forest-dwellers I'd probably leave them be!

I rescued a wasp from drowning in my boiling water when camping this weekend; a co-camper was completely bemused by this and fucking unimpressed when said wasp went after him instead of me. Karma mate (tongue in cheek emoticon)

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