by MojaveMike » Sun Jun 07, 2020 6:22 am
Should one give into the demands of a spoiled child? Is that a wise and appropriate thing to do? What I see when I watch the protesters in various videos is a bunch of spoiled children. What I see when I view videos showing rioters blocking highways, vandalizing and destroying property, and assaulting other people are criminal thugs. Some have said that I should feel empathy for these people. Empathy for what? They have been given all sorts of opportunities to better themselves and been given all sorts of advantages and yet they are having tantrums in the streets. They say that police are racist, but it seems that they are the ones who are racist. A very small percentage of cops act with excessive force. It is ridiculous to accuse all cops of being bad cops because of the actions of a few. That's just stupid and unreasonable, exactly the sort of thing that an immature brat would do. To give into the demands of spoiled, immature brats is not the right thing to do. To apologize for what they claim have been wrongs committed against them is to enable them to continue to be unreasonable, spoiled, and immature. When Greta Thunberg was named person of the year, a dangerous precedent was set. When you allow a spoiled child to scold the world all the other spoiled children in the world see that and think that they are also entitled to scold the world. It's a little like the Honey Boo Boo phenomenon. Spoiled children should not be glorified because then they are seen as role models and the rest of us then must deal with the resulting fallout.