• @Taco2112@lemmy.world
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    174 days ago

    It could’ve been a radio, but it wasn’t. It was kids screaming and parents not taking responsibility for their children. To me as the one in that situation, it certainly seemed like the kids and their parents were the problem.

    The article she talks about child free campgrounds so I felt this was an appropriate anecdote to share.

    I also wasn’t advocating that that campground should have been child free, my story was meant to illustrate why some people prefer adult only spaces.

    • andyburke
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      34 days ago

      Yeah, I get it.

      But what I am saying is: if we just enforced the existing rules we wouldn’t need to be talking about banning whole classes of people, right?

      There is nothing about the situation you described that is exclusively caused by children.

      • @jenesaisquoi@feddit.org
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        63 days ago

        Many kids are just normal kids, sometimes they are loud. But then there are some who are absolute hellspawn, because of their parents. But we can’t make rules that say “useless parents with hellspawn not allowed” so we have to say “no children”.

        It’s like alcohol. Most people are responsible with it and don’t get drunk and misbehave, but a minority ruins it for everyone else by puking, smashing bottles, and just generally being a nuisance, so the rules have to say no alcohol at all.

      • @Taco2112@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Yes, in this one very specific situation, enforcing the rules would’ve helped. It’s still doesn’t change the fact that if it was an adults only campground, this one very specific situation wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

        Children aren’t a protected class and there are plenty of business and establishments that they are not allowed to be in, usually because it’s illegal for underage people to be there. But, what is wrong with a private business, like a campground or a a restaurant being adults only? How is detrimental to the kids?

      • @BigShammy80@feddit.org
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        23 days ago

        Yeah, that would be the best case scenario, but we live in reality, where you just don’t get these things.