Which is why shit parents often resort to physically assaulting their children. It's because the are too ignorant of actual parenting techniques and methods to know otherwise.

"My parents spanked me and I turned out fine"...

No you fucking idiot, you did not turn out fine. You are beating a helpless child because you don't know shit about parenting.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

I got spanked and I turned out fine. And by that I mean I'm not having kids cause fuck all that noise.

[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think people are here advocating beating children. They're advocating physically forcing the kid to sit down. That's just restraining an unruly passenger. It's not a punishment.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 days ago

Beating parents on the other hand...

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is the single best argument for abortion. If the idiots of the world cannot be trusted to have children, we should let them get rid of them before they become everyone's problem without question.

I, personally, hope there are "wellfare queens who get weekly abortions" because thats better than this fictional racist strawman being forced to have a kid

[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

THIS is something that makes me supremely misanthropic.

You have people who acknowledge that a significant number of parents are shit because they end up raising a significant number of adults who are also shit...but then these same people typically are the ones who want to ban or impede universal access to birth controls , abortion, sterilization , and sex ed?

...huh?

Humans Attempting To Not Have Dangerously Invalid Reasoning Capabilities Challenge (Impossible)

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unskilled laborers are their voters.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No such thing as unskilled labor.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

You should have met the previous owner of my house.

[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

when people tell me about all the shitty parents out here I cant help but remember this:

"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.'" -- George Carlin

[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 days ago

Abso fucking lutely

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world -4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The airline said both the child’s accompanying parent and flight crew tried to resolve the situation but were “unsuccessful.”

While you are likely right, we don't know anything about the family. If the child had special needs it may have just been a bad day for all involved.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

But why not throw out the offending family and let everyone else get on with their lives?

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not debating removal, that definately should happen. My debate is with the judgment from commentors despite not knowing the full story.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I know, I went on a tangent. I disagree with you on that. There's no way it's okay to ruin everyone's trip because you cannot exist in society. Fix your shit before gambling with other people's plans.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Fine to disagree, I just find it heartless. Consider this scenario:

You're a parent of a special needs child
90% of the time, things are fine
9% of the time, they're managable
1% of the time, they're not
Your child has been on many flights, and has been fine
This is the 1%
You can't calm your child, others can't calm you child, so you agree to depart the flight
It happens to be that it took just too long for the plane to depart, and you feel like shit.

There is no "fix your shit" in this situation. There are a lot of rightfully angry passengers, at the situation. Those angry at the parent need to learn this is the real world and shit happens that can't be "fixed".

Now, this could simply be a case of a bad parent. But no one in this thread knows that.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

You say it's okay for them to throw the dice with other people's lives. I say this is asshole behavior. You say I'm heartless. Now that we've both descended to name calling, I think we can call this thread done.

[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There's a certain level of disability that simply makes one unable to fly on a plane. If you're an adult and so detached from the reality that you think the flight attendant is trying to eat your soul, and so you need to stab her? Yeah, you shouldn't be on a plane, disability inclusiveness be damned. If the kid has such profound special needs that he simply cannot sit in a chair on a plane without creating a safety hazard for the whole aircraft? He should not be on a plane, inclusivity be damned.

It's one thing if the kid has Tourette's and isn't doing anything except annoying some people. But when it comes to issues of physical safety, disability inclusion takes a back seat.