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Re:How getting richer made teenagers less free by ileonichwiesz on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:09AM (#46312172)
> Your peers are now way more aware of child abuse, kidnappings, murders, than your parents were.

They’re technically more aware of those risks, sure, but any of those crimes are less likely than ever before. This increase in awareness and anxiety isn’t based in data, it’s based on sensational lies and myths. Those lies cause strong feelings and get eyeballs and clicks, and so they spread really well through our fractured media ecosystem.

Nearly all child kidnappings are performed by one of the parents, and there’s no confirmed case of a child ever dying from poisoned Halloween candy.

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Re:How getting richer made teenagers less free by joncrane on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:01AM (#46312767)
To be fair, one of the reasons for the decrease in crime may be the steps taken by average people to minimize it, due to anxiety.
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Re:How getting richer made teenagers less free by medvezhenok on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:09AM (#46313494)
Yeah, I wonder if you plotted crime rate vs time spent outside or something like that (car accident rates are usually reported as an average of an accident / # of miles, since how much you drive changes your likelihood of being in an accident)
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