DFK! wrote:
Arathain Kelvar wrote:
DFK! wrote:
Arathain Kelvar wrote:
Lord, look at some of the online discussions regarding children and airplanes.
Small children have no business on an airplane, a movie theater, or a "grown up" restaurant unless the parent is able and willing to shut them the **** up.
Small children have a right to travel. Small children are, by their nature, not physically able to abide by "polite indoor rules".
Further, airlines are private organizations. They allow children, if you don't like the way they run their business, start your own airline. I see this as nothing more than the same general complaints about offensive television - don't like it? Do something else.
Otherwise, yeah - not particularly interested in listening to adults whine about it. I'll forgive the children for whining, it's what they do. Adults? Not so much.
And you have a clear history of thinking children are the be all and end all of life. I'm free to express my opinion. Did I say that airlines should ban children? Or ban families? No. I said that children have no business on an airplane unless the parents can make their children be civil. Additionally, children do not have a right to travel. Parents do. Parents hold the right in trust for their children.
Yes, you are free to express your opinion. I'm pointing out that IMO it's basically just whining about being inconvenienced and I'm not interested.
And yes, children have rights entrusted by their parents. Their parents can restrict their right to travel, others cannot. So if you said "
my child has no business on a plane" I would agree with you.
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I could logically make an argument that taking a child on an airplane is abuse of that right and any parent who does so should have a CPS intervention. I'm not. I'm just asking that parents go back to the days of understanding that not letting your children behave like wailing **** was expected in society.
You could not. To do so, you would have to hold children to behavioral expectations appropriate for adults. This is not logical. Children cry. Particularly when cabin pressure changes, as they do not understand how to regulate pressure in their ears. This is normal, expected behavior for children, and therefore not an abuse of their right to travel in public. There's no logical argument that doesn't involve the notion that you shouldn't be bothered by other people acting normal in public.