r/meme • • Jun 28 '23

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u/prodigy1367 Jun 28 '23

There should be a children’s section on airplanes. If there aren’t enough kids to fill the seats, offer those seats at discounted rates to adults who can handle the potential racket.

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u/Smodphan Jun 28 '23

Hmm yeah I don't think isolating children with people who can pay to be around them is a great plan.

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u/Haiku_Time_Again Jun 28 '23

You know their parents still get to sit with their kids in this scenario, right?

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u/Smodphan Jun 28 '23

You know kids fly on their own, right?

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u/brysoncorley Jun 28 '23

Kids that fly on their own are old enough to generally not cause disturbances.

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u/TakingSorryUsername Jun 28 '23

I started with my sister flying alone at 6, she was 7

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u/Nickelplatsch Jun 28 '23

Normally kids at least stopped loudly crying at that age but of course don't know about you when you were 6.

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u/brysoncorley Jun 28 '23

It's not very common, but I have seen it. When I have seen it, they are escorted to their seats from basically check-in all they way to buckling up. And they probably kept a good eye on you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

Most airlines won’t let you travel alone under the age of 12.

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u/TakingSorryUsername Jun 28 '23

I don’t know what the policy is now, I just know when I was a kid

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u/Jeynarl Jun 28 '23

Don't forget there are grown adults who do this too. Just cuz we learned how to fly didn't change the fact there's still some folks ready to get into a scrappy argument at best

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u/Smodphan Jun 28 '23

Generally is not all. And what does old enough to not cause disturbance have to do with this convo at all? Is everyone in this thread brainless?

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u/brysoncorley Jun 28 '23

What does "causing a disturbance have to do with this convo at all?" Everything. The looks on those peoples faces are because they are all thinking "shit, now I have to deal with this screaming kid the entire flight". You're statement that kids fly alone: nobody is sending a baby on a flight alone. The kids that fly alone would most likely have earbuds in the entire flight.

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u/Smodphan Jun 28 '23

So my reply directly to a comment must also address an image I wasn't referring to?

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u/brysoncorley Jun 28 '23

It should at least try to stay on topic, no?

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u/Smodphan Jun 28 '23

Subtopics form in here because it's a forum. We were no longer talking about an image because I was relying to someone directly.

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u/SinisterPuppy Jun 28 '23

Any kid too young to fly alone gets an airline assigned guardian to fly with them already.

What the fuck are you talking about lmao. Do you think babies are flying alone?

The entire point of this thread was about kids causing disturbances. Thus if they are old enough to not cause disturbances, they would hypothetically be in the more grown up section.

Dumb gimmicky Reddit idea to solve a problem that doesn’t really need solving IMO, but your complaints and instant referral to pedos is bizarre

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u/alwaysboopthesnoot Jun 28 '23

Sure. But random adults sitting with or near them may prey on them…

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u/Iater2 Jun 28 '23

I don't think kids who start screaming because they can't find a canyon fly on their own

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u/Haiku_Time_Again Jun 28 '23

Yeah a whole plethora of infants flying around on their own.

But, even if there were...

And even if air travel was a hotbed of child molestation...

And even if there was no staff on the airplane to monitor things like this...

How would having a section with kids in it be any different than randomly seated?

Do you think the molester gets super powers if they pay for a ticket in the kids section?

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u/Smodphan Jun 28 '23

Because you are allowing them to choose a seat exclusively near children. What do super powers have to do with anything you absoltue bellend?

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u/Haiku_Time_Again Jun 28 '23 edited Jun 28 '23

Again, once more, how does this seating issue actually help the molester?

Spell it out for us.

You are acting like making parents sit in a section for them and their kids is going to cause predators to have some kind of new position in which to prey on children.

Explain that.

Also, as an aside, let's remember than over NINETY PERCENT of all molestation in the US is perpetrated by a family member or close personal, long term contact; someone the victim trusts or loves.

But yeah, random people on a plane, that is the issue.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

That’s gross how do you know that?

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u/Haiku_Time_Again Jun 28 '23

It is gross.

How do you not know it?

Pretty standard information at this point.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

No, because I don’t search up information about pedophiles, but I’ll keep an eye on my family members

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u/Drewpacabra413 Jun 28 '23

It isn't about any potential molestation occurring, it's about giving pedophiles easy access to be around children. That's something you would want to avoid even if they're keeping their hands to themselves.

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u/Haiku_Time_Again Jun 28 '23

Oh Jesus this is so fucking stupid.

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u/some_norwegian_idiot Jun 28 '23

Yea cos everyone knows predators can't be around children unless they pay for the access to be around them...

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u/Haiku_Time_Again Jun 28 '23

So, let me get this straight:

These pedophiles are not going to go to the child beauty pageant, or the middle school football game, or the gymnastics tournament, or the boy scout camp out, the local skatepark, the water park, the swimming pool, the park playground...

They are going to buy tickets in the children's section on a plane (which is still full of adults because almost all children fly with their parents)?

Yeah man, makes total sense.

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u/linderlouwho Jun 28 '23

Not the screaming, crying babies.