So my friend just killed some woodlice. Do you keep your own morals to yourself when in other people's homes?

[lynnepot]

Just had a coffee at a friends house. We went into her conservatory and we noted there were three or four woodlice crawling around on the floor. She casually swept them up put them in an old ice cream tub outside, then went to the kitchen got some bleach and squirted the bleach over them. She did it so casually whilst telling me about how she dropped off her dd to the coach station last night for a school trip and without any hesitation of doing so in my presence. She didn't even talk about what she was doing. She just carried on chatting. I thought it was quite a mean thing to do really but it was her home and I didn't feel it was my place to comment on it. I walked home just now questioning myself whether we just have to accept other people have different moral thresholds and that we should just respect its her home and some people do things differently.

Never had maggots from nappies, either. It's rotting meat that hatches maggots.

I would have said something, my friends daughter doesn't like spiders and she kills them whenever she sees one. I always tell her I think it's really cruel and unnecessary

That she did it so casually and said ‘ugh, more woodlice’ suggests her home has a woodlice problem. They’re harmless, but in the right conditions they can infest a house, and no one wants that. A couple hanging around is fine. A couple of hundred running around your kitchen, not so fine, and it doesn’t take long for that to happen.

Once you’ve had it happen once you get pretty harsh about keeping them out, because if your house suits them putting them outside doesn’t help, they just come right on back.

But what about when we put slug pellets down, or poison or snap traps for mice. It can all be seen as cruel can’t it.

Tbf that's sadistic and weird I actually wouldn't be friends with such a freak.

I didn't mean wet nappies if a fly lands on a piece of shit its going to lay their eggs. Then maggots are created but she cleared that one up. Being vegan doesn't mean you will never get maggots its only because of how you tie your bins why a fly will never get the opportunity to lay its eggs.

Maggots are the larva stage of the common housefly. Flies are attracted to food and other similar types of rubbish; they lay their eggs on the rubbish and these hatch into maggots. The maggots form pupae and hatch into flies.
www.tmbc.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/recycling,-rubbish-and-waste/household-waste-information-and-advice/help-and-advice-if-you-get-maggots

I would have said something. Probably too bluntly. I usually do.

I perhaps would have said something (about more effective/ cheaper/ less labour intensive ways of blitzing woodlice)

That would have bothered me too OP.

I think I would have said something. Was once at the park with someone whose 7 year old proceeded to squash a ladybird after I’d just said to leave it alone. I was gobsmacked that mum didn’t tell him off, I would have been horrified if my kids did that.

I’d think that’s maybe how her mum/dad did it and she’s just never thought it through.