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The Things They Won’t Believe

34 points| telotortium | 4 years ago |moultano.wordpress.com | reply

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[+] yoz|4 years ago|reply
> We used to play outside in the summertime. It was safe. Nobody died, nobody even fainted.

A short, beautiful, heartbreaking sample of the smaller stakes that we're gambling.

[+] apalumbi|4 years ago|reply
It's also not true technically. Safe is relative. People died and people fainted all the time...they were just far enough away that you didn't really hear about it.

I am in my 40s and the distances that I would ride my bike as a 10 year old are shocking when I consider my own 10 year old riding them. This is because I have more stories loaded into my subconscious about how dangerous it is. Has it always been dangerous? Has it always been safe?