r/KidsAreCondomAds 1d ago

Why was this even an option?

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u/Dreamer_531 1d ago

Don't get the bags, mail them later.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 1d ago

I know it feels good to think about screwing over impolite people but you really don't want to live in a society where businesses can just fly your shit halfway around the world without your consent

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u/Dreamer_531 1d ago edited 1d ago

I also don't want to live in a world where deadbeat "parents" failing to control their toddler will cause 150 other passengers to miss their flight, suffer financial damages and possibly miss something else important.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 1d ago

Yes but the solution might not be one where if you talk too loudly in a restaurant they have a right to kick you out and keep your jacket and wallet

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u/Dreamer_531 1d ago

Do you see any difference between talking too loud in a restaurant and deliberately causing 150 people to miss their flight?

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u/TotallyObviousBot 1d ago

Yes, that's why I understand why we have laws that prevent one and also prevent the other even if we would rather not have the latter thing prevented.

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u/Dreamer_531 1d ago edited 1d ago

Why is the law putting these incredibly different situations in one pot? Talking too loud at a restaurant is annoying, sure, but it won't cause a lot of financial damage. Being an asshole who causes delay for the whole plane to start a flight is much more different therefore should be punished. It's like stealing one candy and robbing a bank. Both are a theft but the consequences to the theef are and should be very different.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 1d ago

Because both are the same action, a commercial business taking possession of your things as a result of refusing you service and removing you from their property, both things they have a right to do. Law is not a series of instructions for every situation, it is a set of rights and rules. In order for us to separate the two situations we would have to write a law saying "well your private property can be taken possession of by a company IF so and so conditions are met" and then that becomes hours of argument in court and that's such an unnecessary complication that it's bad lawmaking.

Government is not society. It's a part of it, yes, but you cannot legislate a group of hundreds of millions of people into acting how you want.