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Our views have changed. We used to throw lawn darts, have fireworks, guns all over. Not even helmets on motorcycles. When I was a kid, we used to rid maybe 6 k

Our views have changed. We used to throw lawn darts, have fireworks, guns all over. Not even helmets on motorcycles. When I was a kid, we used to rid maybe 6 kids in the back of a pickup truck flat bed. That was normal. It would not only be illegal today, but probably considered very immoral. Hockey players didn't even wear helmets, not even the goalies (!). Nobody wore helmets when I grew up skiing, now almost everyone does. We are considerably safer about everything today.

space_fountain 4y ago
Idk how old you are, but I have ridden on public roads in the back of a pickup certainly as late as the 2005 as a child. I think it might be more common than you think in some parts of the country
- CSMastermind 4y ago
  That's still going on today in many parts of the country, I literally saw a truck driving down the road with kids in the back last week. Likewise, I've never once worn a seatbelt in an NYC taxi.
bawolff 4y ago
We also used to knock on wood to prevent bad things happening. I think an argument could be made that we shifted from interventions that dont work to interventions that do.
- jollybean 4y ago
  We still knock wood. We have more science, more education. 10% of kids under age 1 would die at the turn of the century (1900), which means, everyone knew a family with a child that had died, and that's traumatic. Our views of safety and risk have evolved. My grandfather, he worked in a lumber camp, the stories ... my god. We also react to it differently now. Even in our language i.e. 'I feel unsafe' or people talk about 'harm' or 'violence' with just language.
edejong 4y ago
We have a very substantial part of the population becoming chronically ill after an infection of a disease labeled “mostly mild”, yet we decided low-key interventions such as masking and air filtration are not worth it.
2Gkashmiri 4y ago
When I was a kid, we used to rid maybe 6 kids in the back of a pickup truck flat bed. where i live, because of paucity of transportation means, it is not uncommon to have the back door of a car straight open and 3 kids sit there, dangling their feet. that is considered very normal in these parts of the world.

space_fountain 4y ago

Idk how old you are, but I have ridden on public roads in the back of a pickup certainly as late as the 2005 as a child. I think it might be more common than you think in some parts of the country

CSMastermind 4y ago
That's still going on today in many parts of the country, I literally saw a truck driving down the road with kids in the back last week. Likewise, I've never once worn a seatbelt in an NYC taxi.

bawolff 4y ago

We also used to knock on wood to prevent bad things happening. I think an argument could be made that we shifted from interventions that dont work to interventions that do.

jollybean 4y ago
We still knock wood. We have more science, more education. 10% of kids under age 1 would die at the turn of the century (1900), which means, everyone knew a family with a child that had died, and that's traumatic. Our views of safety and risk have evolved. My grandfather, he worked in a lumber camp, the stories ... my god. We also react to it differently now. Even in our language i.e. 'I feel unsafe' or people talk about 'harm' or 'violence' with just language.

edejong 4y ago

We have a very substantial part of the population becoming chronically ill after an infection of a disease labeled “mostly mild”, yet we decided low-key interventions such as masking and air filtration are not worth it.

2Gkashmiri 4y ago

When I was a kid, we used to rid maybe 6 kids in the back of a pickup truck flat bed. where i live, because of paucity of transportation means, it is not uncommon to have the back door of a car straight open and 3 kids sit there, dangling their feet. that is considered very normal in these parts of the world.