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Do you really believe there are abductors everywhere?
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Do you really believe there are abductors everywhere?
- garmaine 8y agoYes.
- test6554 8y agoThere was an article in the newspaper a week or two ago about an attempted abduction 1/2 mile from my house. Kid was walking home from elementary school and they tried to entice her into a van.
- flerchin 8y agoYou may dislike it, but this behavior is a social norm.
- drdrey 8y agoNo, but it still seems like an unbearable outcome
- kgwgk 8y agoIt seemed like a bearable outcome to your parents. ;-)
- jcims 8y agoIt's basically a form of terrorism. Abductors don't need to be everywhere. They just have to be a plausible threat to affect the thought process of a parent that's deciding whether or not they are going to leave their child completely unsupervised and unattended. Maybe if the media didn't have a fetish for covering the incidents that do happen. Maybe if there wasn't a vocal subculture that crucifies parents for leaving their children to their own devices. Maybe if the thought of having the center of your world being beaten, violated and murdered at the hands of a stranger wasn't so mind-numbingly horrific. Maybe then this trend would start going the other way. Or not? Sure parents used to let their kids roam free. They also let them ride in the back of pickup trucks and beat their asses when they did something wrong. There's probably a healthy middle ground.
- isostatic 8y agoI'm not concerned about abductions - no more than being struck by lightning. I am concerned about traffic, which is far heavier than it was 30 years ago and much more likely (than abduction/lightning) to end in serious injury or death.
- jcims 8y agoThat’s a good point, definitely a factor.
- beamatronic 8y agoYes, are you not on Nextdoor? You would be shocked.
- ForRealsies 8y agoYes. Late October 2016. Massive change in worldview.