I read that in the US there's such a huge global panic about children
being kidnapped, that at some places it even borders the illegal to let
children *walk* on the street alone (eg. to go to school or hobbies).
Eg. some woman got fined because she let her kid do that.

  Instead, children are always driven by car to and from wherever they
need to go.

  Now, this seems to be an utter failure of perspective: Approximately
100 children are kidnapped each year in the United States. However,
over 10000 children die in car accidents each year in the United States.
That's a one hundred-fold difference. Nevertheless, they still consider
driving them by car safer than letting them walk.

  Thus the "cure" to the problem of 100 children being kidnapped each
year is to have ten thousand of them die in car accidents.

  Sense or proportion, anyone?

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                                                          - Warp

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