Editor’s note: this is a post about American Independence Day celebrations
existentialmemes
Alright, I’m going to launch explosives around your house. For several hours. Yes it is dangerous and terrible for wildlife and the environment. And yes your pets will get sick from eating the debris and you will feel terrorized inside your own home.
No you can’t opt out of it. Everyone is doing it and frankly it’s weird that you don’t want to.
No you can’t be the one launching the explosives you need a license for that. You can however launch these marginally smaller ones though. Yeah just whenever you want. 2am sounds great.
So anyway, fireworks were a mistake and it’s never too early to start reminding you of that.
Every single thing you enjoy is harmful. Every joy you have can have some level of guilt associated with it. Fireworks aren’t an exception, you just don’t like them so you justify that dislike by pointing out the harm, and ignore the harm you do every day with the things you, personally, enjoy.
Me reading on my deck, or playing video games in my office doesn’t cause someone else to have a massive panic attack or traumatic PTSD episode you wanker.
Way to ignore the problems with deforestation, exploitation, animal deaths, slavery and human death you’re totally fine with that’s related to those things. Just because it’s not in front of you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. I’m sure the child slaves who mine for rare earth minerals have PTSD episodes, but because it’s far away and brown people, and you happen to like video games, suddenly they aren’t problematic?
Oh yeah, it isn’t because it isn’t inconvenient to you, personally.
You certainly seem working to compromise when it’s something you like, but are weirdly hard line when it’s something you don’t.
I live on a farm. I raise livestock. I literally own land with woodland on them I use for heat, production, and regrow everything I cut down that isn’t naturally felled by hurricanes. My work and my land contributes to society.
What have you done?
If you could for one second stop talking out of your ass, you might make a respectable point. But I’m sure it’s real easy to act how you act from the middle of an apartment downtown in a city.
Whipping out your privilege of owning a lot of land doesn’t suddenly make those kids not dying in mines for your electronics and trees not getting cut down for your books.
So nice try but that’s got nothing to do with this conversation, and owning a farm doesn’t make you right all the time, nor a better person.
I kinda doubt you’re on a farm, honestly, if you have that much of an opinion about fireworks. You don’t have them blasting off from your neighbors right next to your house till 3am like people in the city do.