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Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx
If your kid starts a fire outside that only singed the hair off your other child and only by luck did it not catch your house on fire... was that not a big deal?
No one was actually hurt and the house didn't burn down so... why would anyone care that one of your kids could have burned down your house and immolated your other kid? No bid deal right because the severity of what happened was actually nothing. The house wasn't damaged and hair re-grows... right? |
Yes, you probably say to your kid, "this could have been a much bigger deal, you were lucky it didn't cause more issues. You then ground them for a week and make them do some chores. 20 years down the road, you can actually joke about it and how stupid their act was and how lucky they were. It would have been a big deal and devastating if they had burned down the house or severely burned their sibling. Everyone is saying Rice ****ed up and made a horrible decision, but he was lucky or this would have been a "much bigger deal"... but those things didn't happen, or it would still be on the news in a big way and Rice would be cut and facing serious jailtime.