LoveinTokyo, au contraire, I have made it very clear that I consider it the job of adults to model consideration to children. Consideration includes being reasonable about who has the right to swim as opposed to playing ball, lounging around, diving in, turning somersaults underwater, etc.
The point about swimming - in a straight line, presumably - or lap swimming, or swimming lengths, is that it is inconsiderate and also dangerous.
I would indeed be teaching my children to be selfish and inconsiderate if I decided that swimming into crowds of people in a pool, arms rotating and legs kicking, regardless of who was in the way, was my god given right just because imo swimming takes precedence over other uses of the pool, or because I am an adult and therefore what I want to do in the pool should take precedence, and everyone else should keep put of my way. Even other adults should stay on the lookout for me and have their children move, according to many here. 'Everyone owes me my swim'. That is your attitude here.
The discussion of swimming vs. other uses of the pool is not a straw man argument. Posters on this thread are clutching their pearls at the idea that children should be able to have a carefree time in a pool. There are ingrained attitudes behind that consternation, attitudes that developed in a particular culture. They are apparently for the most part completely unexamined, just taken for granted.
Maybe the 'straw man' tack is your little way of admitting you don't have a leg to stand on here. That is certainly what I infer from your decision to have a go at my children.