I grew up in the Bay Area in the 90s and we were allowed to roam as free as we wanted. Sometimes we were a bit naughty but nothing too too crazy.

Everything is a possibility, it's all about the statistical probability of a bad outcome actually happening.

Someone could break into my house and murder me at any moment. I still don't wander around with a bat or a club because such events are sufficiently rare here in West Menlo Park.

When I was a kid, it seemed like adults were idiots by and large.

Now as I'm getting a bit more ahem, experienced, my perception is regressing back towards this hypothesis.

Why are the karens winning? :/