• fluxx1@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Now, why would you make it personal. Why my kids? I wouldn’t want my kids to hang near a person like you (I actually don’t care, but just so you know that it hurts when people say it like that). My point is, this is not a simple question to discuss and the least it needs is dragging it to a personal level. A more important question is should this even be regulated? And where do you draw the line? Like, I don’t think it’s a good idea to allow children in unsafe places and in places that exposes them to nudity or explicit content, but I would also very much object if I wasn’t allowed to a certain restaurant with a kid, but the pets are allowed. Where is the line? Certain age? Certain gender? Skin color? Pet? At which point is it discrimination? In the end, this comes out as a sort of positive discrimination to make people with children feel less alienated and unwelcome. As a guy with kids, I can tell you I’ve felt that way too many times. I would certainly not want to ruin anyone’s good time and in fact - my kids behave in that way. I don’t like being disallowed to take my kids anywhere, though I’m certainly not going to take them to places I don’t feel they belong. Children should be allowed in more places, but children should not be allowed to behave any different than any normal adult - if you make noise, you’re out, just like a drunk obnoxious guest, for example. Unfortunately, it’s a similar situation like with people with pets. People who are the least responsible are the first to take their pets/children where they should not go. It’s the parents who are a problem, not children. Not pets.