Free-Range Children

[MRT144]

Crazy futurist types call this sousveillance. (Or at least, the crazy futurist types I read talk about sousveillance.)

Great Black Mirror episode featured some of this.

[MRT144]

yes

i find that the whole "hot or not" type thoughts go away whenever i'm committed to someone

despite my love for the visual female experience, i tend to be a bit prickly and require someone who clicks with my personality

sadly, i've often had to choose... looks... or someone I don't want to strangle

tough call

The older you get, the more you realize that looks won't make living with another person any more or less tolerable.

[Lorizael]

Great Black Mirror episode featured some of this.

Everyone keeps saying that show is the bombdiggity. Is it?

[MRT144]

Everyone keeps saying that show is the bombdiggity. Is it?

It is. There's one weak episode but its pretty solid Sci-Fi vignettes done without the constraints of being a serial or having a regular cast.

[Berzerker]

sounds like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, I'll have to check it out

I actually kinda wonder, is the net effect of laws like this to make the streets less safe? A deserted street is much more dangerous than a bustling one.

yup, them kids playing out in the street were the first ones to see smoke if there was a fire

I guess paper routes are now totally out of the question.

I spent ~5 years delivering papers before sunrise...and dealing with a bunch of mean dogs, especially one crazy airedale called Mace. He never bit me but he sure enjoyed making my life hell.

[Proteus_MST]

Fascinating.

When I was 8 or 9 I was allowed to walk alone to primary school and back, which was 1 km away
(and that was rather the norm than the exception).
At 10 years when I went to secondary school myself and all others in my class had free bus tickets (paid for by the school if you lived at a certain distance from school) in order to travel from home (in a suburb) to school (in the inner city, 5 kms away) via bus

All things that were seen as pretty normal

Sounds a little bit overprotective from sides of the government authorities what they do to these parents

[History049]

Fascinating.

When I was 8 or 9 I was allowed to walk alone to primary school and back, which was 1 km away
(and that was rather the norm than the exception).
At 10 years when I went to secondary school myself and all others in my class had free bus tickets (paid for by the school if you lived at a certain distance from school) in order to travel from home (in a suburb) to school (in the inner city, 5 kms away) via bus

All things that were seen as pretty normal

Sounds a little bit overprotective from sides of the government authorities what they do to these parents

There's always danger. A 10 year old walking alone to school could easily be kidnapped by a pedophile. Does it happen regularly? No, but it happens enough where it's an issue that needs to be addressed.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

This is because laws are made by people who farm their children out to boarding schools and rarely actually see them.

[kentonio]

There's always danger. A 10 year old walking alone to school could easily be kidnapped by a pedophile. Does it happen regularly? No, but it happens enough where it's an issue that needs to be addressed.

If it happens to one child in a million, does that mean it's worth preventing the other 999,999 from experiencing any form of freedom during their childhoods?

[Sava]

The older you get, the more you realize that looks won't make living with another person any more or less tolerable.

Yes.

My next goal is to find a good ratio of cuteness to tolerability.

I've learned that ugly people can be just as intolerable.

[Lorizael]

There's always danger. A 10 year old walking alone to school could easily be kidnapped by a pedophile. Does it happen regularly? No, but it happens enough where it's an issue that needs to be addressed.

Pedophiles aren't actually goblins who hide under sewer grates and snatch away joyfully oblivious schoolchildren.

[Alexander's Horse]

This is because laws are made by people who farm their children out to boarding schools and rarely actually see them.

We have joined that group

We keep moving, but they keep finding us...

[Elok]

There's always danger. A 10 year old walking alone to school could easily be kidnapped by a pedophile. Does it happen regularly? No, but it happens enough where it's an issue that needs to be addressed.

1. A ten-year-old walking alone to school is far more likely to be hit by a car than by a pedophile. Let's plan for the actually significant dangers.
2. Randomly kidnapping kids to molest them sounds several orders of magnitude more dangerous than highway prostitution. I would assume that any perv actually dumb enough to do that would not be alive and molesting for very long.

Pedophiles aren't actually goblins who hide under sewer grates and snatch away joyfully oblivious schoolchildren.

You will be getting an angry letter from the lawyers for the Goblin Anti-Defamation League shortly. Their rep is bad enough without bastards like you comparing them to pedophiles.

[Elok]

Also, is "History 049" a course number for something really dumb or really awesome at Carnegie Mellon? Not getting the new name here.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

This is because laws are made by people who farm their children out to boarding schools and rarely actually see them.

this.