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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by matte_black on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:31PM (#17221273)
Isn’t this survivor bias? Plenty of kids were killed or died gruesome deaths in older days.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by rco8786 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:44PM (#17221349)
Yes, accidents happen. But this is precisely the type of thinking that got us where we are today. Millions of kids playing in the forest and a few get hurt so we keep them inside now.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by watwut on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:09PM (#17221506)
Survival rates are higher now. Rates of serious injuries and deaths due to accident are lower now. Much lower. Not saying that right now is necessary the ideal equilibrum, but kids in past died of accidents and it was not unusual event. It was not mere theoretical construction that might happen to someone else.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by matte_black on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:54PM (#17221403)
Similar to how millions of kids go to school without being shot or killed yet people want to pull back as many guns as possible.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by rco8786 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:22PM (#17222212)
I think the other ~100k deaths and injuries sustained by firearms every year might also come into play there.

The deaths you're speaking of are also not accidental.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by acct1771 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:41PM (#17221788)
With guns on all the racks in the trucks in the lot. It's a tired trope, but it's true.

This should be fun.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by saagarjha on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:37PM (#17221310)
> Plenty of kids were killed or died gruesome deaths in older days.

How "old" are you talking about here?

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by carlivar on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:55PM (#17221411)
Probably referring to the Black Forest of medieval Germany.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by DamnYuppie on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:26PM (#17221618)
Please provide evidence of this. The overwhelming, staggering, majority, didn't die gruesome deaths because they played unsupervised.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by paublyrne on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:41PM (#17221328)
Some, sure, but there was hardly an epidemic.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by PrimHelios on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:00PM (#17221445)
Meanwhile, there were literal epidemics of children dying when my mother was a kid.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by agumonkey on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:24PM (#17221595)
probably. Note that my laugh goes bothways. I'm annoyed by the over paranoid life of today, but I realize that we were too candid back in the days. Society oscillates/
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by reneherse on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:10PM (#17221508)
Hansel and Gretel, for instance.
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