>>3621556>If she was alone with them at the park, or on the beach, etc stuff like that, I could see it>>3621569>but taking pictures of people's kids is going to come off as creepy 100% of the time and it's just really not smartSee, this is the problem.
You start by *yourself* finding it "creepy", under "some circumstances". Either because you believe it to be so, or because you want to placate the soccermums, or separate yourself (the "ethical" photographer) from the "creepy" photographer.
This only reënforces the idea in those soccermums that it's indeed creepy. The same when you delete a photo because someone is offended. All of this cements the idea in the brain of those randos that you're doing something wrong. And the more you act like that, the more this idea is cemented and the more emboldened those soccermums become.
You give a push to the slippery slope, so much that in the end legality doesn't matter, because popular opinion and irl interactions are on the opposite side. Then you can "de jure" take photos but "de facto" you cannot. And *you* are responsible for it.
