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Originally Posted by Mambo
- Because you want your 7 year old to walk on the streets alone in a city?
Are you out of your f..g mind?
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When I was a 7-year-old, I walked on the streets alone, on my way to and from school, as did the entire student population of the country. Thirty years on, today's kids are still doing it and I see no reason why they shouldn't. Perhaps we're all out of our minds and the entire country should be reported to some global Child Protection Services organization. But I doubt it.
I'm sure there are cities and countries where it is unsafe for a person with no obvious means of defending themselves, regardless of their age, to be out in the street alone in broad daylight, but where that is not the case, I don't see that this collective and even state-mandated overprotectiveness makes any sense.