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I do think people - and especially kids - are generally nicer and more accepting than they were back in the 80s when I grew up. I wonder if this is related to t
by stickfigure 1y ago
I do think people - and especially kids - are generally nicer and more accepting than they were back in the 80s when I grew up. I wonder if this is related to the fairly dramatic drop in violent crime statistics we've been seeing over the last several decades?
- vanviegen 1y agoThere may be a connectedion to reductions in lead-poisoning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesi...
- pbhjpbhj 1y agoLead-free petrol helped.
- rbanffy 1y agoIt’s fun to imagine that an alternative reality where lead was never added to petrol. We’d be colonising neighbouring solar systems by now and living in a post-scarcity society.