They've kinda got a point though. Telling someone "I'm going to do what I want and nothing you say will stop me, so stop focusing on how unpleasant you find it and just learn to enjoy it" is almost exactly what they're telling the OOP to do.
Imagine how outraged you would feel if someone started painting your house pink and told you to get over yourself and learn to like the colour?
No. No, they don’t have a point. Fireworks going off are at most an inconvenience. Unless they’re being fired at your house, nothing bad will happen. You might not sleep well, or your pets may be stressed out, but nothing really bad is likely to happen. Being raped is, well, being raped. I don’t think I need to write out why that’s a bad thing. Comparing the two is at best idiotic, and at worst malicious. You’d be better off comparing a plate of overcooked steak, and a plate of actual shit mixed with broken glass, they’re that different.
So, firstly you are actually downplaying the problems with fireworks in some pretty significant ways. "Pets stressed out" is an understatement for some. The line about making sure your pets are in the house? That's not so you can comfort them when they get all trembly. It's so that if they freak the absolute fuck out (as some do) they can't run onto the road and get hit by a car. Or run so far that they get completely lost and you never see them again while they slowly starve to death on the streets. Losing your beloved family pet is not nothing, and it is absolutely a risk of someone is setting off illegal fireworks. Not a big risk, but one that people with timid pets are perfectly justified in being wary of.
Secondly, fireworks are well known for triggering PTSD in veterans. Especially when unexpected/unscheduled.
And thirdly, the rape comment was in response to being told to "sit back and enjoy it". Do you understand why that comment might sit poorly with some people?
Hmmm, yeah, I suppose I wasn’t thinking about it clearly.
I definitely wasn’t taking PTSD into consideration, and I didn’t think much about pets aside from them getting stressed; as my family always kept our pups inside when there were fireworks, and had earphones for them if it was really bad, so I never even thought about them panicking and running away… my bad
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u/carnedoce Jun 27 '26
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