That’s not as simple as not liking it, that’s having a specific complaint. Which wasn’t what was said

I imagine that if you had a dog you wouldn’t be “womp womp” about torturing it two or three times a year.

Or if you had a friend with PTSD, you wouldn’t go out of your way to aggravate that a couple times a year.

These were not the arguments you presented. Those arguments I am more empathetic to. You said:

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

To which I want to say “Womp Womp”

Stairs are relatively safe, tens of thousands of people still die from them every year.

To ignore slave owner and slavery apologists we’d have to get rid of all abrahamic religious holidays leaving… Juneteenth, Labor Day, MLK Day, and Veterans Day. Those are fine holidays- but not exactly the most festive/family fun.

I think the British(under Churchill) made starvation of hundreds of thousands of colonial subjects was horrible, those same people can still be celebrated for fighting Hitler though.

The Vietnam war was unjustified(blame French colonialism too though), but American soldiers were tortured- see Stockdale

What state portrays US history as utopian in the past 20 years? I grew up in Kentucky and definitely got a lot of stuff about slavery, Native American betrayals and murders, civil rights, Mexican American war, Hawaiian colonization, the only reason they didn’t cover the Vietnam war or Filipino is because they ran out of time from assigning pointless art projects.

Edit: Other stuff that was covered, bonus army, workers rights and child abuses

Because people can do good things and horrible things in their life. Essentially no one is universally evil in everything they do.

I just think there are ways to get that besides blowing things up once a year

I mean, I think it’s good that people get to safely experience explosions, something most people probably wouldn’t experience in their lives otherwise.

“but I like them so I don’t see the problem and won’t stop”

Well yeah, when it’s 2-3 days a year it just makes me want to say “Womp Womp” about the complaints. Not everything has to be something you like

Isn’t that what parades are for?

But parades are boring

There are other ways to get that. The universe is huge, look up on a quiet night with little light pollution.

People need novelty in life, if it’s there every day it’s not special.

I’m not ok for every kid in the neighborhood having access to little explosives.

Backyard rocketry is imo something to be celebrated, a bit less if it’s just buying premade fireworks, but kids learning chemistry and engineering in an exciting way isn’t bad- it also helps with developing a sense of responsibility when you will probably mess up and hurt yourself

You and I went to different history classes clearly

A community of ultra redditors must of course be the fun police :(

My point is, it’s very easy to dismiss something you have no knowledge or experience of.

I didn’t say I have no knowledge or experience, I said I have no expertise in it. I’ve read some of Thoreau, Of Mice And Men, Lord of Flies, etc other “classics”. I’m not an expert in movies but I can say what I don’t like, and trends I don’t like.

But I don’t think it’s a good thing if reading comprehension and general language skills decrease in general, do you?

I would prefer if English evolved to be as simple as possible, as has been the trend. (English used to have grammatical gender you know.) I would also appreciate more spelling reform(like Webster pushed for), and it is working. You see more people saying “u”, “luv”, and “kno” everyday.

Do you think people think more clearly, are able to argue their case better or identify disinformation more accurately if they don’t know as many words or how to use them?

We can test this, because some languages have more complex grammar rules and more words than others. But you should note, language is not a prerequisite for complex thought. And, different languages when spoke tend to convey information at roughly the same rate. Which indicates that the ability to conceptualize things(including complex things) is relatively independent from the language you “think in”. At a pretty basic level, if you speak a language that tends to use a base-10 system, than doing math in base-10 is more familiar, but that may just be because base-10 numbers are themselves a component of language.

Languages evolve based on whats needed, if someone is an adult and doesn’t know a word, it is probably not particularly valuable to them- and has nothing to do with their ability for complex thought. Just like languages with fewer words(or many words made up of simpler components, like Chinese) don’t limit someones ability for complex thought, it just means they’d express it a different way. For example, “hamburger” vs “beef patty sandwich”- not knowing the word hamburger says nothing about your ability to understand and think about the concept.

They aren’t removed because they’re too hard, they’re removed because they’re inconvenient. They are removed when there is a more succinct and/or better understood alternative, for example “evolution” doesn’t have a good alternative to replace it. Memorizing relatively obscure words isn’t intellectual, and as simple building blocks as possible can often better communicate more complex ideas. There’s a reason C is better liked than C++

If you are communicating visions, emotions, feelings and other mental images then flowery is exactly what you need.

I don’t agree, you can be explicit and simple while still communicating complex ideas- but it is a difficult skill. And an emotion is a generally a pretty complex idea.

I do agree that creative writing can be fun (honestly more for the reader than the writer, most of what I write on here was probably more fun for me to write than for anyone to read), but it is still just entertainment and not some sacred art form. I’ll cope next time I hear someone describe some as “X gold”. No, lithium isn’t white gold, it’s just an in-demand resource. Just say it’s valuable if you want to. Analogizing something to gold isn’t creative, it’s an overdone trope.

You don’t have to. But I do wonder if you do value uniformed opinions you agree with it.

Your choice to care or not, I generally value the input of others- but it’s your life

one might think that you were denouncing thousands of years of linguistic artistry without any real knowledge or insight into the subject.

Whoever would think that is correct. I don’t value “art” as anything higher than other forms of entertainment, and there are trends in some entertainment I don’t like. Of course some people is free to like them

Wait till someone tells you about translations and language evolution