May 12, 2021, 4:35 PM

@aria said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

When I was little and I threw a tantrum in public, it didn't matter where we were or what we were doing, my parents would just pack me up and leave. Halfway through dinner at a restaurant? Doggie bags. Middle of the grocery store? Full cart returned to an employee with apologies while they marched screeching toddler-me out of the store. After about half a dozen goes at it, I decided that I liked going out and doing things more than I liked having fits, so I stopped having tantrums in public.
Didn't even matter if you were someone else's kid. Didn't matter where we were or what property you were on. Drop me off at school and find a pack of kids bullying someone? She'd yell at you to knock it off and get your asses inside before she called your mother. Running around the neighborhood acting all crazy-like? She'd scream at you to get out of the damned street before you got hit by a car.

This is precisely the types of things that the people in question are protesting against. If we took any kind of action like that, more punitive than what is already out there, you're just adding jet fuel to the fire.

FREEDOM! is a national religion, and that mostly means that the government can't tell you what to do.