Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him

[Catholic_Lady]

You are correct that the pledge isn't about honoring those who serve. But as I have explained, when someone is sacrificing life and limb for their country and the people in it, and some punk kid can't even be bothered to stand up to honor their country for 2 minutes simply because he doesn't feel like it, it does kinda fly in the face of the former group. It does feel indirectly disrespectful. Because one person is sacrificing their very life to make this country what it is, meanwhile someone else is too lazy to even stand for a pledge to it.

So is it the whole "can't be bothered" attitude that you really oppose more than anything? If this weren't "some punk kid" but instead was an honor student who was a student activist, was aware of various forms of injustice, and was refusing the stand for the pledge because they disagreed with the wording, specifically the "liberty and justice for all" part. Would you feel that this inaction is also disrespectful?

If you think it's still disrespectful, is it less disrespectful than the punk kid, or the same?

Further, what if the kid was from a military family, and intended to join the military after graduating?

Further again, what if the kid had the support of veterans in his/her family to refuse to stand?

It's really just the can't be bothered attitude. If it's a form of protest/disagreement or even a religious thing, I wouldn't take issue with it.

I can't imagine someone being too lazy to stand for the pledge but then wanting to join the military, but if someone did I'd find it disrespectful just the same. Even if they had their veteran family's support or w/e. Which would also be strange bc I can't imagine anyone supporting their kid being lazy about something.