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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by throwaway2037 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:10AM (#50450199)
Thank you to share your story. Jesus, where do you live where that is possible? Are you rural?
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by rcxdude on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:00AM (#50452883)
The risks may be much higher for women, but in most places the base rate is still very low. "Assaulted by a stranger on the street" is actually fairly low in the risks for almost anyone: the vast majority of assaults, especially sexual assaults, are perpetrated by someone the victim knows.

(This also doesn't mean that such concerns are irrational, just that the risks are not so high that you should expect every woman going out for a run in the dark is eventually going to be assaulted)

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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by cowlevel on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:53AM (#50454863)
reminds me of the OSRS wilderness. I've encountered so many people who are afraid to even step foot in there for any reason.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by throwaway2037 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:50AM (#50455540) 

    > is actually fairly low in the risks for almost anyone: the vast majority of assaults, especially sexual assaults, are perpetrated by someone the victim knows.
I need to troll here: You mispelled actually. It should be "ackchyually". Please read "moar" about the meme here[1]. I'm not here to start gender wars, but your response is incredibly tone deaf to the world that women experience in rich, middle class, and developing countries. I keep seeing this bullshit on HN where a comfortable dude has something to say about how women's fear is "irrational". No, that is not has the human brain works regarding safety. It is irrationally afraid. That is how we survive -- both men and women.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy

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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by rcxdude on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:23PM (#50455937)
You're claiming a lot of things I didn't say and in fact I explicitly called out in my post that I was not saying.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by moi2388 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:00AM (#50453535)
In the EU. Provincial capital. 5 minute walk from the city centre.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by throwaway2037 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:52AM (#50455566)
Can you acknowledge that many women in similar circumstances do not enjoy the same levels of personal safety?
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by AnneTrotter on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:17AM (#50463343)
So - not actually in the dark. Street lights exist for your area.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by defrost on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:31AM (#50463415)
If that's the bit that you're jumping on, there are people here in Western Australia (myself included) that are happy to run at night under a full moon with no carried lights or artificial street lights on beaches and along roads and tracks that are known.

Once your eyes adapt the full moon is easily bright enough to illuminate the ground.

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