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I hate that this needs to be said, but giving kids free food is not illegal.

by ajam1507 9mo ago

clipsy 9mo ago
If you believe that, go set up a "Free Candy!" stand at a local playground and see how long before the police show up.
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago
  > go set up a "Free Candy!" stand at a local playground and see how long before the police show up This is a sign of a broken community. Handing out candy is absolutely fine as long as the kids are old enough to understand their own allergies and limits.
  - clipsy 9mo ago
    But kids don't know their own allergies and limits, because they're kids. That's the point.
    - JumpCrisscross 9mo ago
      > kids don't know their own allergies and limits, because they're kids. That's the point Counterpoint: Halloween. Most kids are competent enough to manage their survival in such circumstances. Some are not. And sometimes it’s not the parents’ fault. But if a community is raising a generation too imbecilic to choose if they can eat chocolate, their life path is sort of already written.
      - obidee2 9mo ago
        Halloween happens once a year, that’s a big reason it’s tolerated. Also, many parents do provide guidance/control over how much and how fast the candy is eaten. Because otherwise everyone suffers. The better comparison is what if there was a bottomless bucket of candy in your 10 year olds room all the time.
xboxnolifes 9mo ago
This requires many asterisks, as once you hit any appreciable size of "giving out food" you tend to hit tons of local ordinance about food safety, permits, and just general distrust of directly interacting with other people's kids at a playground (depending on the age we are talking about, but since we said playground, I'm assuming pretty young).
- ajam1507 9mo ago
  You don't need all the asterisks if you don't stretch the metaphor beyond its breaking point.
  - xboxnolifes 9mo ago
    I'm not stretching it at all. The context was McDonalds, and the added context was giving food to children at a playground. I'm completely bounded on that context.
- direwolf20 9mo ago
  To add, little children have been arrested for having lemonade stands in the USA before.
  - JumpCrisscross 9mo ago
    Source?
direwolf20 9mo ago
If the food contains heroin, it's illegal. There's a line somewhere.
JumpCrisscross 9mo ago
> giving kids free food is not illegal It’s not. But if you’re giving a kid “100” burgers “in one sitting” without the parent’s explicit sign-off, you are probably liable for damages.

I hate that this needs to be said, but giving kids free food is not illegal.

clipsy 9mo ago

If you believe that, go set up a "Free Candy!" stand at a local playground and see how long before the police show up.

JumpCrisscross 9mo ago
> go set up a "Free Candy!" stand at a local playground and see how long before the police show up This is a sign of a broken community. Handing out candy is absolutely fine as long as the kids are old enough to understand their own allergies and limits.
- clipsy 9mo ago
  But kids don't know their own allergies and limits, because they're kids. That's the point.
  - JumpCrisscross 9mo ago
    > kids don't know their own allergies and limits, because they're kids. That's the point Counterpoint: Halloween. Most kids are competent enough to manage their survival in such circumstances. Some are not. And sometimes it’s not the parents’ fault. But if a community is raising a generation too imbecilic to choose if they can eat chocolate, their life path is sort of already written.
    - obidee2 9mo ago
      Halloween happens once a year, that’s a big reason it’s tolerated. Also, many parents do provide guidance/control over how much and how fast the candy is eaten. Because otherwise everyone suffers. The better comparison is what if there was a bottomless bucket of candy in your 10 year olds room all the time.

xboxnolifes 9mo ago

This requires many asterisks, as once you hit any appreciable size of "giving out food" you tend to hit tons of local ordinance about food safety, permits, and just general distrust of directly interacting with other people's kids at a playground (depending on the age we are talking about, but since we said playground, I'm assuming pretty young).

ajam1507 9mo ago
You don't need all the asterisks if you don't stretch the metaphor beyond its breaking point.
- xboxnolifes 9mo ago
  I'm not stretching it at all. The context was McDonalds, and the added context was giving food to children at a playground. I'm completely bounded on that context.
direwolf20 9mo ago
To add, little children have been arrested for having lemonade stands in the USA before.
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago
  Source?

direwolf20 9mo ago

If the food contains heroin, it's illegal. There's a line somewhere.

JumpCrisscross 9mo ago

> giving kids free food is not illegal It’s not. But if you’re giving a kid “100” burgers “in one sitting” without the parent’s explicit sign-off, you are probably liable for damages.