This article is about 10 years old, but I ran across it today at lunch. It deals with the age old fallacy that the world is becoming a more dangerous place, not like the good ol' days when we were kids. How quickly we forget what life was really like back then.
"Yeah, I'm really worried about raising my kids," a college friend with two pre-teen girls tells me. "Everything's out of control: drugs, schools, college costs." I try reminding him that he himself first smoked dope at age 15 and that his and his wife's combined income--somewhere around the $100,000 mark--should let them be good providers, but he cuts me off: "No way, it's totally different now. Do you know how much college costs? Have you seen the kids today? Do you hear the music? They're out of control," he says, forgetting for the moment his early-'80s penchant for humming Sex Pistols lyrics such as, "I am an anti-Christ, I am an anarchist, don't know what I want, but I know how to get it" and "God save the Queen, she ain't no human being....No future for you!"
Seriously, now that I'm a father, if any of you ever hear me say anything close to that, hit me. Hard.
This article is about 10 years old, but I ran across it today at lunch. It deals with the age old fallacy that the world is becoming a more dangerous place, not like the good ol' days when we were kids. How quickly we forget what life was really like back then. 
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It was funny reading the article you linked to. At some point Americans became more concerned with preventing mishaps then actual life experiance. Maybe if Ford and GM would have spent less time trying to sell their cars on safety ratings and more time on performance and reliability they'd still be number one. I've often told my wife that this "safety" obsessed country is raising a generation of pussies afraid to skin their knees. While your generation shocked their religious sensbilities with "I am an anti-Christ, I am an anarchist, don't know what I want, but I know how to get it," this one will shock their parents by riding their bikes no-handed-properly padded of course.
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