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On a gaming cartridge:
Do not immerse in water

On a pool toy:
Not a life saving device

On a pack of peanuts on an airline:
This package contains nuts

In my son's swing set instructions Manuel:
Do not go down slide on feet
Do not go down slide head first
Do not go down slide backwards
Feet must be facing forward when going down the slide
Butt must be on slide when going down
Do not swing on the swings on your feet
Do not climb up the slide
(I think all this was for liability because I did all these things when I was a kid)

Have you not had kids be mean to you when you were little? Did they not make snide comments or any remarks about your hair or clothes or how you behaved, etc? Why do you think kids with disabilities are more targeted to bullying or kids who are poor or abused? Kids are mean creatures and adults couldn't careless so they don't say anything while kids do.
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some kids are mean sometimes. some kids are nice sometimes.

some adults are mean sometimes. some adults are nice sometimes.

nobody is completely nice/mean/good/bad. even whether one particular action is nice/mean/good/bad is sometimes subject to interpretation.

adults bully adults too. adults bully children too.

quite frankly though i think that it has more to do with the context, laws, and social standards than the age.

children k-12 have to go to school, until they are old enough to legally dropout. or until they graduate high school.

children are sequestered for the school day. they have to go to school. they do not choose which school. or which instructor. or which class. they do not choose their classmates. they have forced interaction with classmates.

adults, not so much. even when/if adults bully other adults, regular, prolonged interpersonal interaction does not have that many occassions for it to occur. adults bully other adults at work. (fine). but a lot of jobs just involve working in a cubicle without much interpersonal interaction. besides, adults have supervisors that make sure adults do their work. granted, sometimes supervisors bully employees.

but seriously though, i do not think. that adults bully adults less often than children bully children, b/c adults are chronologically older or more emotionally mature. and i think that if society treated children like little adults, children would bully other children less than children bully other children now.

^^^ Yes, they MAY contain other things too! Such as unauthorized extra protein...

I hate those pharmaceutical ads that list all of the horrible side effects of the medications you're taking for any problem you can name. At best, you don't know if you're getting better or worse; at worst-you could die! May cause nausea, vomiting, alternating episodes of constipation and diarrhea, dizziness, drowsiness and DEATH!

Don't drive or operate machinery until you know how this affects you!

And if you or a loved one dies...YOU CAN SUE!

And on something that isn't explicitly a bag of nuts, that would make sense. (also, peanuts are technically legumes, not nuts. There, I pointdextered myself.)

They don't even know from which side of the Pacific it comes from?

^ Well, it's easy to get them confused, you know! Just wait to you see their hazel nuts; they're either from Tasmania or Iceland