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Originally Posted by fotze

Thats exactly the stuff I used to say, exactly. In our parents day things certainly were different.

Both my mother and father each had a sibling die in their first couple years of life. Good times indeed. It was normal to have a certian percentage of kids die in their childhood. Too bad we couldn't go back to those times, society was so much better with death rates so much higher, wages lower, poverty higher. Cars sucked, food sucked, there was racism, women couldn't work. When kids got raped by their fathers, they 'sucked it up' (hopefully not literally)

In pretty much every way, shape, form and measurable way, the good old days sucked worse than now. I never understood the longing for the bad old days. Not only is it a supremely depressing way to go through life, its a lie.

and Mattyc wasn't ranting at you per se, you were just a launching point.

Haha fair enough. All those issues are mostly separate though. I'm just advocating allowing kids to be kids. Keeping them inside for fear of their safety is much more detrimental in the long run IMO. Your parents may have known people who died as children from injuries (aren't you old balls as well?) but is that being offset by the rampant obesity that only gets worse as they get older? At least falling off a roof is more diginfied than eating yourself to death.