2y ago

As an owner of children, I approve this message

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In this picture:
1 cute baby
1 caring parent taking his kids on a trip
And a bunch of entitled douchenoozles, not understanding that THEY used to be screaming babies too!
Edit: The replies to this are wild lol this platform really is just single dudes circle jerking. If you really have no compassion for the parent in this picture, you need to take a deep look at yourself.
- I'm not a screaming infant anymore. And I chose not to reproduce because I didn't want to deal with screaming children. Not wanting to listen to someone else's screaming/crying children in an enclosed space you can't get away from them in isn't being a douche its expecting common courtesy and a pleasant experience everyone has pain potentially a lot of money for.
  
  Tbh taking your baby on a trip is a giant waste of money. They aren't going to enjoy/remember it. And if you bring them on a plane they will have no clue what's going on, be stressed, and annoy everyone else
  
  Exactly! All these parents and self absorbed people trying to come after me for my comment because they think they should be catered to or bent over backwards for because they popped out a kid is laughable. It's not a good experience for the kid and it's not a good experience for other passengers who had no input on the kid being there.
  
  Why are all of you assuming people are going on vacation? People travel for all sorts of reasons.
  
  people travel for reasons other than just taking holidays too...
  
  Why isn't this infant baby showing common courtesy? My God does this infant have no shame?
  Fucking lol
  
  Don't be stupid. It's on the parents not the infant. Nobody cares if the infant cries some, or if they do they aren't worth talking to. The point is if you know you can't control your child or have no way to handle them on a plane, you have no business bringing them and you should've driven. Simple as that.
  
  Why are you under the assumption all parents who travel are doing so for leisure?
  
  Cause they would pick other options than the plane if it wasn't.
- "You used to be a child once, so you aren't allowed to be frustrated at any behaviours of children or choices of their caregivers" sure is a perspective.
  Yes, I was once a child. And if my parents had taken me on a flight before I was sufficiently mature not to yell during it, they would have been being irresponsible and selfish. "Babies scream, sometimes there's nothing you can do to stop them" is true, but doesn't imply that you should be allowed to take them anywhere.
  
  What about ugly people or people with body odour? Do we not allow them to travel on planes, too? I can easily block noise with earplugs. Can't really plug my nose or keep my eyes closed all the time.
  Why is everyone else responsible for your comfort? Wanting all families banned from airtravel just because wearing earplugs is asking too much is in my opinion a lot more selfish than bringing a child onto a plane.
  
  What about ugly people or people with body odour?
  They get called out all the time.
  Remember the story of Andre the Giant that took a shit on a plane and they had to make an emergency stop?
  They should do the same when a baby starts to cry.
  
  Neither of those things you described are intentional life-choices that people have planned, so no, it is not the same thing at all.
  Why is everyone else responsible for your comfort?
  This is a circular argument I've seen a lot of times on this thread (from several people), so I'm going to respond to it just once and then stop engaging here because this whole thread is not convincing anyone. Both sides of this issue believe that that argument supports them:
  Pro-babies think "other passengers should just bring earplugs, I don't have to be responsible for their comfort" (let's leave aside for a moment the question of whether earplugs are actually fully effective against screaming children (they're not) and give this view the benefit of the doubt)
  Anti-babies think "just don't bring the baby on the plane. The whole rest of the plane shouldn't have to adapt to your choices"
  The thing is, one of these groups of people is knowingly introducing a factor that will cause distress to hundreds of people and is saying "fuck all of you if you aren't prepared to adapt to my choices", and the other group is saying..."please don't do that". The latter feels way more reasonable to me.
  The key point here seems to be that air travel is considered to be a fundamental inalienable right, something which should not and cannot be denied. Parents are saying things like "well without air travel, how are we supposed to go on holiday", to which the answer is...maybe you're not (or you go by car/boat) until the baby's a real human? Maybe that was something you should have thought about before you had a child? Maybe, just maybe, it should be the cultural and social norm that a choice that you made does not permit you to inflict the negative outcomes of that choice on a tube of strangers?
  
  Body odour is - thanks to deodorant - very much a choice.
  You are right, air travel is no fundamental right. Same as air travel in complete silence.
- Ugh, forget it. The majority here are young people, mostly men, without any experience with children.
  
  I've had plenty of experience with children crying on planes.
- Well, what would you expect from someone who says they "own" children?
  
  It's a joke...

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