Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it ok for you to do it. MY mother taught me that when I was 5. How is it that you escaped this most basic moral lesson? She never said it was OK for her children to eat a Happy Meal every now and again just because other families ate there also. This isn't some kind of bizarre conformity we're talking about here. It is that her children may really like McDonalds, but in taking them only twice per year she moderates their intake, protecting their health while not appearing as a total monster to her children.
She isn't thinking "33 million other people do it so I should too."
She's thinking "I love my children and want them to be happy."
But she satiates their need responsibly.
