> But it's easy to criticize from afar if you've never lived in a low-trust society. You are part of the society you live in, and how trusty, or not trusty, sa

> But it's easy to criticize from afar if you've never lived in a low-trust society. You are part of the society you live in, and how trusty, or not trusty, said society is, isn't some fixed value. Do you think this whole "War on Terror/Trust, nobody,/Report everything suspicious" episode, that's still going on, might have something to do with US American parents being so paranoid? Because what I've witnessed in Germany, is that a whole lot of parents are just irrationally paranoid in response to press reports pushing certain agendas. These people are utterly convinced that everything is worse now, that their kids are in constant danger everywhere. Even when you cite those people local crime statistics and how crime has steadily declined, these people will insist on "everything having gotten worse, statistics are faked". At this point, most kids carry around their very personal tracking device, yet parents are still scared of letting them do anything on their own. Has the world really become such a much more dangerous place? And if that's actually true, why would you bring children into this, supposedly, much worse place?