No, it's called using hyperbole as an example to prove one's point. Grandpa is a fictitious character.
It seems you are sensitive to people disagreeing with you, so I'll let this conversation get back to the etiquette of ears.
I think it was about two things, etiquette of ears and putting kids on your shoulders, so I think our conversation still has value to the original remarks.
And, though it may seem like sensitivity, I assure you it is passion. I am a former national forensics leaguer, debate is what I do... and I love it! Its so important to follow up your beliefs with good reason and logic, especially when facts are all but non existent (we can't, for example, pull from a qualitative study on the frequency of people's dissatisfaction with a particular event in the magic kingdom based on ears or children on shoulders blocking views) so we have to debate or converse about or personal logic on the subject. Doing that helps other people inform their opinion.
I will say that simply typing "ridiculous" or "absurd" isn't so much a disagreement as an attempt to dismiss and dissuade people from offering their take or discussing the thought in any way. So, that is why I continued, as a means to flesh out the real logic behind the disagreement, because... if I am in the wrong I want to understand and change my opinion.
I don't disagree that people who think their child is ENTITLED to a view just because they are a child are rude and uncouth.
I don't disagree that people putting their kids on their shoulders with reckless abandon and no thought for the people behind them are awful.
I don't disagree that everyone who shows up to a parade or stage show deserves a view of the parade.
MY only hang up is, that as we pack more and more adults into these clearly designed for children shows and parades, the children, who have no voice or way of moving to the side or changing their position to get a view, start doing that thing that EVERYONE hates: darting through people to push their way to the front or screaming and crying they can't see through the whole dang thing.
I think we as a Disney society can be attentive enough of the people around us, and understand the expectations of the scenario your in to help each other benefit from the event.
Also, as a debate aside, can I just say that hyperbole is pretty much the bane of any argumentation? You will ALWAYS be able to come up with an exception to any instance, and create a fictitious character that pulls at the heartstrings of everyone, in an attempt to sway people to your opinion. In debate we called this "dead babies on the flow" and if through the flow of your debate you had more dead babies stacked up on your opponents side, you might win. But everyone hated it because you could connive a million dead babies into your arguments through colorful means, and it still wouldn't answer the questions presented in the debates. Likewise, hyperbole doesn't answer the question of whether or not we should be mindful of audience and others, it just introduces an element of emotion to the discourse that is unnecessary. Since it doesn't exist, it doesn't actually matter.
As I said (and will say again) I think that if you believe that the parades were designed with adults and seniors in mind, you are probably mistaken, based on the historical discussions and interviews imagineers and cast members have had on the topic, they seem to be designed for the tiny ones. I think that if we accept that these events were meant to be experience as children paramount, and then through the eyes of a child secondarily (as in, put on your own child at heart glasses) it only means that we should be mindful of the people around us, and not get bent out of shape about the children trying to get the same view as we have through our natural height.
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don't think it means we should accept rude behavior or inconsiderate action, but instead just enjoy all the aspects that we can control, if that makes any sense. I don't subscribe to the idea that it means you need to bend over backwards to allow children to get a better view than you, and certainly wouldn't imply that.