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If it's my ball, there is nothing wrong with me taking it and going home whenever I want. CMV

The phrase "I'm going to take my ball and go home" is usually used to deride someone who doesn't get their way, so they leave whatever activity they are doing.

I think that this is a flawed way of looking at it. By using my ball,there is an implied agreement that using my property entitles me to dictate the parameters of the activity we are doing. If we do not play the game or do the activity in a way I can agree to, I have every right to refuse participation in the activity, and refuse the use of my property (the ball) in the activity as well.

I have never understood why this phrase exists to ridicule people, whether on the playground or otherwise. While I can understand the phrase being critical of people who are overly petty with results, I think the fact that they own the property entitles them to act as petty as they want to, and that their decision in that matter should be respected, not looked at with scorn.

I am applying this to situations both on the playground and in the adult world. 

CMV.
gpt
I think that most people would agree that you *have the right* to walk away with your ball.
 
However, just because somebody has a right to do something, it doesn't mean that others are required to like it!
 
To put it another way, you *have the right* to take your ball, and the others *have the right* to think you're a dick for doing so. Maybe walking away with your ball reveals something about your personality to these people, and they don't like what they see?