God damnit Daedalus.
I have smoked things and I am not impaired. Tobacco does not make you any less intelligent. There are loving ways of enjoying smoking without becoming addicted and getting cancer. There are medical forms of cigarettes. Using the fact that he smokes as a defense is literally the most handicapped thing I've heard all day.
You are generalizing and labeling. You're no better than the supposed people you're associating him with.
Secondly, it was his laptop. Not hers. He allowed her to have it, and then he took it away. He was making a point. Hiding it or having it out of her room still gives her to opportunity to use it secretively. He destroyed the damn thing because he was using her own tactics against her. Sensational letter calls for sensational action.
Thirdly, he had spoken with her about this before. Calmly and collectively they talked it out and he was probably assured that she would never do this sort of thing again. They did it your dad's way.
But then she did it again. You don't just talk about it again, because that is obviously not going to work. When diplomacy fails as an option then you don't just keep at it. Sure, maybe your father was lucky to have a son who actually listens to him so that talking works, but not all children are that behaved. Some of them are ungrateful little pricks who need to be taught a loving lesson about life. Don't loving bite off the hand that loving feeds you, else it might use a gun on your laptop.
I understand it was his laptop, no problem there. I'm just saying, it's still a waste. They better loving recycle the materials :u
And I'm not using his smoking as a defense. I have other arguments for why I think the daughter and the father are idiots. I'm just saying that to be smoking cigarettes, you'd have to be some level of stupid in the first place. Weed is much less harmful,
although I am against weed as well - I've lost a few friends to itI understood that she's a prick. I completely agree with that. She's an starfish and a moron.
But I'm saying that her upbringing must have caused her to be the prick she is, somewhere along the road.
And finally, my main argument against the father is not that he's a bad father, it's just that the lessons he's teaching by doing this sends mixed messages.
On one hand, yes - if you make an agreement ("don't rant against me or you'll lose your laptop"), follow through with it. Don't let your kids step all over you.
On the other hand, I find the execution to be unnecessary. To recycle the laptop, or to even donate it to his IT department, is less destructive and aggressive.
I hate when parents have to use scare tactics. They may be completely necessary sometimes, but I think in this case he could have handled it less destructively and aggressively.
