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Tawnos wrote:
marshaul wrote:
Nice try, neon-replicas tyrant. Washingtonian freedom exists in spite of you, so it's massively hypocritical to appeal to it for justification. I won't buy it.
I've also decided that you're a troll despite your ostensibly pro-OC stance, and I will no longer respond to your nonsense. Just know that nobody's been fooled by your inanity.
Eh, I met her in person. She's not a troll, just a mother
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Take that as you will (both of you!)
I am sincerely grateful that my parents allowed me to exercise judgement while I was growing up.
So many parents want to cripple their children's decision-making capabilities by abrogating all responsibility on the part of the children in the name of "safety" and "common sense".
But this is absurd. I was capable of thought when I was a child; I remember it clearly. The ideal balance gives your kid room to learn to make to right decisions, the hard way if necessary.
This balance is not met when parenting is delivered by "common sense" nanny-tyrants eager to ban realistic airsoft because they are unable or unwilling to trust her own children with same.
I will say this once: there is nothing inherent about children or teenagers that makes them incapable of safely occupying a world in which realistic airsoft guns are legal. There is only poor parenting.
Having been young once and remembering it, this is the philosophy I grew up with. I suppose this means I will always be at odds with the latent nannies in our midst who, having apparently never been young, seem to have the notion that they bear monopolistic possession of so-called "common sense" and the general ability to form coherent thought.
