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It's always the same in the end - the thing with a low-trust society vs a high-trust society. When an ever increasing part of the population is cognitively imp
by mschuster91 1y ago
It's always the same in the end - the thing with a low-trust society vs a high-trust society.
When an ever increasing part of the population is cognitively impaired, (massively) under-educated themselves and/or doesn't have the time and money to properly take care of their children, a lot of implicit and explicit assumptions just go straight out of the window. The fact that car dependency and car centrism makes a whole lot of other assumptions (like, that you can let your child outside unattended because nothing will happen to them) go away as well doesn't help either.
And lawmakers and executive agencies like CPS? They only see that "numbers go up" or get blasted for high-profile cases where the shit really hit the fan, but as addressing the root causes goes far out of their scope (both legal and financial), each uses the tools at their disposal to try and keep up.
- clickety_clack 1y agoI don’t know if it’s quite a trust issue. Maybe it’s more a low- v high- responsibility society. It seems more like people want responsibility removed from people and given to the government. In my experience people become more competent when they have responsibility, so the removal of responsibility seems (to me at least) like it will train people into incompetence.
- mschuster91 1y agoWell, European countries have (more or less) strong governments and strict regulations, but as a result of these, our children mostly can walk to their schools, and they certainly don't have to fear school shootings.