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>Reading this, I felt real anger at our society. I think everybody feels this way. I have a hard time imagining that anything but the vast majority of parents

by xrange 12y ago

>Reading this, I felt real anger at our society. I think everybody feels this way. I have a hard time imagining that anything but the vast majority of parents would agree. So that makes we wonder if there is some agenda behind this? A gas lighting effect maybe? People would say "well things may not be ideal where I live, but at least it is not like over there", and so they are less likely to act to change things locally? I don't know, maybe I'm just being paranoid.

randallsquared 12y ago
> I think everybody feels this way. I have a hard time imagining that anything but the vast majority of parents would agree. I think this is typical mind fallacy. Most parents, especially in these days of tiny family sizes, are probably more heavily protective than parents used to be. I was ten in 1983, and for most of my childhood my only present parent was of the same age as most of my peers' grandparents (all of my siblings were boomers), and the difference in protectiveness was noticeable: I could stay out for hours at any time of the day or night when I was 13 and 14, except for times that were scheduled (school, church, and homework, basically). He wasn't surprised if he didn't see me for the entire weekend at that age.
ashark 12y ago
I think the main reason is that the police feel like they have to do something about any complaint of this sort, because they'll be fed to the media sharks on the off chance that something does happen, even if it's some unrelated incident[1]. So all it takes is one idiot making a complaint and the police feel like they must act because that's safer for them and for the department than if they don't. No-one's going to lose their job or any money over the linked story, so that's the safe option. [1] "Could the police be partly to blame for so-and-so's disappearance? Here's the story of how our police ignored reports of vulnerable children in the weeks before this horrible event."
xrange 12y ago
...after thinking about it a bit more, it could also just be part of an overall propaganda in the "cultural wars". Some people will be against the actions of the government in this case, while others will instinctively defend it. Certainly it is easy to get a "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance." ...vibe from the article. Which is not so different from the "For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States" ...vibe that has also been making rounds lately.

by xrange 12y ago

randallsquared 12y ago

> I think everybody feels this way. I have a hard time imagining that anything but the vast majority of parents would agree. I think this is typical mind fallacy. Most parents, especially in these days of tiny family sizes, are probably more heavily protective than parents used to be. I was ten in 1983, and for most of my childhood my only present parent was of the same age as most of my peers' grandparents (all of my siblings were boomers), and the difference in protectiveness was noticeable: I could stay out for hours at any time of the day or night when I was 13 and 14, except for times that were scheduled (school, church, and homework, basically). He wasn't surprised if he didn't see me for the entire weekend at that age.

ashark 12y ago

I think the main reason is that the police feel like they have to do something about any complaint of this sort, because they'll be fed to the media sharks on the off chance that something does happen, even if it's some unrelated incident[1]. So all it takes is one idiot making a complaint and the police feel like they must act because that's safer for them and for the department than if they don't. No-one's going to lose their job or any money over the linked story, so that's the safe option. [1] "Could the police be partly to blame for so-and-so's disappearance? Here's the story of how our police ignored reports of vulnerable children in the weeks before this horrible event."

xrange 12y ago

...after thinking about it a bit more, it could also just be part of an overall propaganda in the "cultural wars". Some people will be against the actions of the government in this case, while others will instinctively defend it. Certainly it is easy to get a "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance." ...vibe from the article. Which is not so different from the "For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States" ...vibe that has also been making rounds lately.