We actually said something like that 🤣tho to be fair there was like 50% and given day between the ages of 6 and 25 us dying and our last words being “watch this”
While I don't encourage playgrounds to become industrial wastelands with instant-death luring around every corner, I think it's good to NOT raise kids in an environment where every sharp corner is padded with 10 layers of foam. Real-life also doesn't come with allround-safety-padding...
Does no one else see that the kids that grew up with risky play and survived are now running companies and governments all over the world… how’s that working out? Maybe there’s lessons to be learned from both approaches
This kind of thing goes on precisely until the first lawsuit.
The most enduring product of Western Civilization is the combination of European nanny-state with the American lawyer-state, where everyone must be protected and if they aren't lawyers make sure it is somebody else's fault.
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We also made go-karts without brakes and survived!
The most enduring product of Western Civilization is the combination of European nanny-state with the American lawyer-state, where everyone must be protected and if they aren't lawyers make sure it is somebody else's fault.