I don’t think we could have a productive conversation together.

I’m sorry that parents irk you so much, I really am, and hope that this eventually gets better for you. I’m not in your country, and any tax breaks you think I get are offset by the cost of raising a kid. I’m not at your job, but parents everywhere are known to be reliable workers that are more likely to stick around as their risk threshold gets higher. And all people everywhere contribute what they can, especially since knowledge workers can only crank out so much; staying up late increases mistakes and decreases productivity. These parents you think leave early are dead tired and probably catching up on work whenever they can, while juggling the unfair stupidity of a 2-unit nuclear family in the modern society.

But hey, I don’t want to convince you of anything. As I said, I doubt we’d come to terms with each other’s worldview. I hope someone’s kids contribute enough to your country’s social security backlog so that you can retire one day.

And perhaps… don’t insult strangers on the internet? Especially since they agreed with you that Chat Control is pointless and unwanted. Yapping manchild at someone is kinda funny when your entire take is aggression and the teenage angst typical of arrested development.