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Do you know something about "those two", or are you just judging from appearances?


Well she is heavily pregnant and is holding a pack of cigarettes in her hand, so even if you ignore everything else in the picture, I can judge a prospective parent on that alone. If you cannot stop smoking for the 9 months that you are carrying a child inside you then you are already failing a child that has not even been born yet.


I've often carried packs of cigarettes, yet I never smoked in my life.


Do you have a photo of you with a pack of cigarettes that you could access now? Probably not because if you dont smoke you probably dont carry them often enough to be photographed doing so.

Also the guy has an iron cross tattoo on the colours of the Confederate flag and an SS tattoo right next to it. Sometimes you should judge people by how they present themselves because that is how they want you to see them.

If these two turned up at my house for a babysitting gig I would judge them as unsuitable to be around my children, so in this instance my point remains, shitty parents usually end up rasing shitty kids that turn into shitty adults and yes in this situation you can tell when you look at them that their child is probably not going to be a net benefit to society.


Do you have a photo of you with a pack of cigarettes that you could access now? Probably not because if you dont smoke you probably dont carry them often enough to be photographed doing so.

Clear survivorship bias. If she didn't have a pack, you probably wouldn't even have known about the picture. So the number of people who carry without getting photographed is irrelevant.


I'm not sure that is true re: me not knowing about the picture, the cigarettes are hardly the main point of this picture, perhaps a minor bullet point at best.


I think you could try to be a more tolerant person.


Its funny you say that, I am a tolerant person. That doesn't mean I cannot hold an opinion on these people. Do you think they are tolerant people? Is it the Confederate flag tattoo or the Nazi SS tattoo that conveys their tolerance to you?

Have you ever seen a child that is living with parents like these? It's not a happy life, it's not good for the child and the best you can hope is that the child is nothing like the parents. It is very sad to know that in many cases they will not be much different to their parents and will likely raise their children in a similar way. Being tolerant doesn't mean being blind to the reality of these situations.




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