How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

Re:How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations by pjc50 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:38AM (#13549297)

What do you have the freedom to do that you can't do in a city, other than constraints of space and physical geography? Rurally you're still constrained by all that seemingly open land belonging to other people, plus the time constraints of getting to places.

You have fresh air, views, and quiet (provided you're not in the middle of an agribusiness rural area).

(Talking about "freedom" in the pure abstract is vague; freedom to/from what?)

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Re:How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations by distances on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:20AM (#13550626)

I know this discussion is from the US point of view, but land belonging to other people is not a problem everywhere. Many countries (at least in Northern Europe) have "freedom to roam" [1] which in addition to actual roaming may include camping, picking berries and mushrooms, et cetera.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam

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