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I concur, this would be good for developing cheap drone warfare capabilities. I mean, I love loud explosions and the sound of freedom because I'm not a wuss, but we need to get our drone game on China's level.

Get the drone show up and open it up to amateurs trying to shoot down the drone show for maximum adversarial drone warfare preparedness!

That would unironically be an amazing festival activity. A drone lightshow open to public participation where the different colors are tied to swarms engaged in a battle royale.

I also can't wait for the return of traditional blood sport events with bipedal robots as the contenders (but I digress).

Drones have their own failure mode https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-27/sydney-vivid-festival...

Pollution too.

Microbits of plastic, atmospheric smoke, splintered pieces of wood, wildfires.

freedom loving Democratic socialist here, this stance is very St Thomas Aquinas of you. let people continue to do the things you did without pulling up the ladder behind you. it's just for a night or two, the animals will live.

Everything needs to have a reason. Fireworks don't have a good reason, even ones that are professionally done. Just because its tradition doesn't mean it should be auto accepted.

No, everything does not need to have a reason! "Just because" or "I just wanted to" do not inherently make the activity useless, nor mean that it should be discontinued.

If an activity is harmful is some way, but not beneficial in any other way (just because one "likes" it doesn't count"), the reasons to ban it outweigh the reasons to keep it

Agreed. No video games or sex before marriage either.

If there is actual harm being done, i.e reason to ban them, then sure.

In the case of video games, I ironically agree on ban for kids on video games with online multiplayer. Kids should be forced to socialize in person in way greater ration that their online time to see that online personas are not real

In the case of sex before marriage, the opposite is probably true.

This is almost certain to backfire. Better: make drone shows more available, and maybe subsidise them with a tax on fireworks.

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