They once tried to teach us this at camp but it was on the windiest day and when one of us finally succeeded we immediately almost started a wildfire when the lit tinder blew away.
They're trying to punish the poor and homeless who shoplift those things because you can't spend SNAP on necessary hygiene items.
I wouldn't know, I wasn't invited.
My cats have multiple bowls, a glass, and fountain to accommodate their various freak preferences. The fountain is taped to the floor so they don't dump it out playing in it.
Oh, the "many of the things I rely on are basically magic" part I totally get. We're social animals who assume society has mechanics, to carry it on. It's the kind of person who impulsively tries something and is shocked there's already a barrier/camera/rule to stop them from doing it I don't get.
We had "Government and Econ" in HS, but deciding to teach us "how to register to vote and file taxes" rather than "this is what supply and demand is" was purely an executive decision on my History teacher's part.
It's a line of thinking that fascinates me every time I encounter it. Like, if an idea takes me five seconds to think of, I assume someone has already thought of and tried it. I genuinely cannot fathom the kind of person who is perennially surprised by this. How are they going through life.
I feel like Carrot specifically has a scary-looking runic tattoo that if you can read Dwarvish is the cultural equivalent of "big heart with PARENTS" written on it.
...But I always thought what was fascinating was what it revealed about what we'd put in the hopper, rather than the output itself.