What is the answer?
Neighbour sprayed simazine along boundary while I was working in the garden, didn't even have the courtesy to call out over the fence to see if anybody was there first. Now that she knows about my "problem" she will let me know in future.
These days I usually try not to get into conversations with people unless I already know they are intelligent and open-minded enough to bother with. Too disheartening otherwise. I'm sorry but I wasn't blessed with the sort of charismatic personality that people are influenced by and I have enough problems in my life without going looking for more battles to fight. But since the issue came and hit me in the face I felt compelled to speak up.
When I tried to carefully suggest the wider issues of chemical use she responded with the usual "I have the right to do what I want on my property, I'm not fussy about things like that, we all have to die of something sometime, you can't spend your life worrying about things like that..."
Has anybody ever thought of something effective to say to such people?
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