American parents -- again

[BigT]

@Roderick_Femm

I searched and couldn’t find it. Anyway, yes she acted like a mask-hole, but this thread is mainly about the parents, and others of that ilk.

I named the wrong thread. It was in the COVID-19 breaking news thread. And the only discussion was linking the story and then the post I replied to, so I won’t link it. I’ll just quote my post (which came a bit later than the others because I’m slow to catch up with faster moving threads).

@BigT

She’s not merely an entitled dumbass. That would apply to, say, someone who went and sat in first class when she had an economy class ticket. No, her actions also showed a reckless disregard for the health of others. The quarantine rules exist to protect people from a deadly virus. Her actions very well could have killed someone.

The closest thing I can think of that people seem to get the gravity of is drunk driving. The reason it’s wrong is because you’re likely to cause harm to someone else. Even if the driving goes okay, we still have a rather strong reason to punish, because it could have gone very, very badly.

Click the link to read more of my post or see the (very short) post I was replying to–if you’re even remotely interested.

Glad you made a separate thread so we could discuss it more.