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Q: why sell fireworks to little children?
children (around 10) should not be handling fireworks. they throw them into areas where people are. they even throw them at people.
so why are fireworks sold to children????????
i ask myself that question all the time, and ive heard lots of stories from chinese friends where kids have been injured or died from playing around with fire works. but people still let their children play this stuff
Because it's fun to watch them blow their little fingers off. Why stop with fireworks? Let's give the guns and hand grenades!
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(Yawn)
Yeah, what kind of people would want to make more money at the expense of everyone's safety?
Oh wait...
Mr_spoon:
And I don't only mean China, I mean anyone. I was able to buy firecrackers since I was around 7-8 in France.
Sure, they aren't those huge boom crates like in China, but still had enough firepower to blow up a kid's hand off.
mArtiAn:
Yeh, I remember as a kid we used to take every opportunity to buy fire-crackers when we had a trip to France. Fire-crackers and flick-knives. Great stuff.
I didn't know they even did (sell them to kids).
Last Chinese new year, my daughter was 1 ish and we went down to the 'area' in our complex to let of some firecrackers and very small hand held fireworks, ............. the first belt of firecrackers I lit went of sooner than I expected, my daughter, (about 5m back) was totally under whelmed while I was consumed in smoke and fire.
However, that doesn't answer your question, of course they shouldn't be sold to minors.
I can think of three reasons:
1. Money - if you can pay for it, I'll sell it to you.
2. By nature seem to be rather oblivious to things going on around them.
3. An undetermined human instinct to self-decrease population by engaging in reckless behavior when population begins to grow too large. Something along the lines of lemming behavior.
TedDBayer:
the Walt Disney lemming flick was a fake, they drove all those lemmings to thier death.
Anyones safety seems to be left to the individual, not to rules or consideration. Even building structures like stairs often have no or substandard hand rails.
When I was a kid we could get fire crackers and the things we did with them, 6'' cannon crackers, it's a miracle no one I knew was ever really hurt.
It's relatively simple: personal responsibility and safety are concepts not yet instilled upon the Chinese population. That's why you see people riding around with babies attached to the front of their electric motorcycles, why so many parents neglect their children, etc.
Not even a week ago, I witnessed two teenagers throwing fireworks into trash cans, and running away laughing while other people were nearby. The fireworks exploded and nearly injured several people in the process, myself included.
Being the upstanding foreign individual that I am, I chased them down and beat the shit out of them. Surprisingly, the bystanders praised me for my efforts to "eradicate juvenile delinquency from our China."
Like a lot of these things in China it really comes down to a lack of education in certain sectors of society. The lack of education in not teaching personal responsibility or about the resulting dangers in certain situations. Added to this I think we must factor in the old idea of face, where no-one accepts they are at fault or that they are wrong; so if something does happen it is not their fault anyway. This is a potentially very dangerous mix for everyone. I think a good proportion of the blame for this attitude lays at the feet of the government. Rather than teaching things like this in school they are more content to teach love the party instead. It is very easy to blame people, but is it right to blame people who know no better. It seems to me that the government is content to keep a lid on society rather than really educate. The people with the poorest education here just do not realise how their government works against them all in the name of a harmonious society. The children will always be children, how many of us when kids have not done equally stupid, unsocial things. But we learn or are taught that this is wrong because....... The pity here is the adults who simply do not care about anyone else provided they make money. They need to be educated about social responsibility and that is not happening to the extent that it should.
Have you seen how many of the firework vendors that will actually smoke while selling you fireworks? I can't count the number of idiots I had to tell, "Don't smoke around the fireworks you are selling. At least not while my family is around." And they always give me the same sheepish grin that says, "Yeah, I know I am an idiot. I promise not to endanger your families life or anyone else's for at least another 5 minutes."
On the flip side, I have to say that I spend WAY too much money on fireworks every year.
My kids love to watch fireworks go off, but they are scared to go anywhere near one to light it. This proves that they are much smarter than their old man.
诸葛亮:
That reminds me of the many times I need to tell a taxi driver to stop doing 90 MPH during a torrential downpour. I recently watched a vendor light up a cigarette while trying to sell fireworks. The ensuing rocket barrage nearly cost me my fucking life.
They will sell fireworks to small kids as long as the kids have the money to buy them. Fireworks are part of Chinese culture. Why sell Beer to little kids? My nephew has been going and getting my brother in law beer since he was six. My nephew also caught himself on fire with fireworks at spring festival. He was burned fairly bad. The parrents would have to police that, and that is not going to happen any time soon.
I guess this speaks volumes about their social values - or rather the lack of.
