That's not as simple as not liking it, that's having a specific complaint. Which wasn't what was said

I imagine that if you had a dog you wouldn’t be “womp womp” about torturing it two or three times a year.

Or if you had a friend with PTSD, you wouldn’t go out of your way to aggravate that a couple times a year.

These were not the arguments you presented. Those arguments I am more empathetic to. You said:

I don’t like the loud noises, the smoke, or the debris leftover.

To which I want to say "Womp Womp"

Stairs are relatively safe, tens of thousands of people still die from them every year.

To ignore slave owner and slavery apologists we'd have to get rid of all abrahamic religious holidays leaving... Juneteenth, Labor Day, MLK Day, and Veterans Day. Those are fine holidays- but not exactly the most festive/family fun.

I think the British(under Churchill) made starvation of hundreds of thousands of colonial subjects was horrible, those same people can still be celebrated for fighting Hitler though.

The Vietnam war was unjustified(blame French colonialism too though), but American soldiers were tortured- see Stockdale

What state portrays US history as utopian in the past 20 years? I grew up in Kentucky and definitely got a lot of stuff about slavery, Native American betrayals and murders, civil rights, Mexican American war, Hawaiian colonization, the only reason they didn't cover the Vietnam war or Filipino is because they ran out of time from assigning pointless art projects.

Edit: Other stuff that was covered, bonus army, workers rights and child abuses

Because people can do good things and horrible things in their life. Essentially no one is universally evil in everything they do.

I just think there are ways to get that besides blowing things up once a year

I mean, I think it's good that people get to safely experience explosions, something most people probably wouldn't experience in their lives otherwise.

Isn't that what parades are for?

But parades are boring

There are other ways to get that. The universe is huge, look up on a quiet night with little light pollution.

People need novelty in life, if it's there every day it's not special.

I'm not ok for every kid in the neighborhood having access to little explosives.

Backyard rocketry is imo something to be celebrated, a bit less if it's just buying premade fireworks, but kids learning chemistry and engineering in an exciting way isn't bad- it also helps with developing a sense of responsibility when you will probably mess up and hurt yourself

You and I went to different history classes clearly

A community of ultra redditors must of course be the fun police :(