@neil
Here, I fixed it for you:

Look, you are not required to put children in the swimming pool.

But nor are you prohibited from doing so.

This swimming pool is entirely neutral on the issue of children in the swimming pool. Children are beautiful and graceful creatures.

If you do put a child in the swimming pool, the child is your responsibility.

Oh, and you don't have to tell anyone if you are putting a child in the swimming pool.

@neil Who exactly are the sharks in this metaphor?

@neil when you do that, at least make sure it's a saltwater pool :P

@neil ok, now that we've agreed that it's okay to put sharks in the swimming pool, we should discuss whether the ecological impact of the sharks on the population of fish in the swimming pool is something that we care about!