300 million lbs of fireworks and 2.7 billion dollars gone in a cloud of smoke.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    10 months ago

    I don’t like the loud noises, the smoke, or the debris leftover.

    Maybe 200 years ago they were impressive. All the color and whatnot up in the sky. But we live in a modern age. We have things way more entertaining than colorful explosions that don’t have such immediate drawbacks.

    It’s also supremely annoying and like a microcosm of everything wrong with humanity that some folks will be like “I don’t like them for a set of valid reasons” and a bunch of people will be like “but I like them so I don’t see the problem and won’t stop”

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      10 months ago

      So you consider it to be “everything wrong with humanity” that people can’t just snap their fingers and stop other people from doing things? That one person’s concerns don’t equal another person’s lifestyle change, and that’s the dark side of humanity?

      It actually kinda sounds like you’re saying freedom, as a phenomenon, is what’s wrong with humanity.

      If you look at it one way, “freedom” is a word for the concept that “A person’s reasons are always legitimate”.

      So really, some people claimed legitimate reasons for stopping others from using fireworks, and other people claimed legitimate reasons for saying no thank you and continuing.