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Re:The day I accidentally killed a little boy by gnicholas on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @02:18PM (#16108888)
This is true. The number of child abductions by strangers in the U.S. is extraordinarily low—in the neighborhood of 100 per year [1, 2]. There are lots of abductions, of course, but nearly all of them are by family members, acquaintances of the family, or other non-strangers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-mis... http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/31/kidnapping-stats

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Re:The day I accidentally killed a little boy by madez on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:41PM (#16109844)
The same is true for murders. The objectively statistically most dangerous people are those around you that you know relatively well, not some random stranger passing by or sitting on the next bench. This irriational fear of danger of strangers stops us from bonding with new people.
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