As soon as the media decides to make something important, everyone seems to jump on the bandwagon to avoid feeling like bad people. If there is anything the U.S. needs to learn right now, it is that the media cannot be trusted when it works only for profit. No one would watch if we actually put NEWS on the news, only explosions and brutality make the cut because then we tune in. When the news cares more about making money then about protecting people, we shouldn't be taking advice from them.
You prob make that assumption without looking for any facts whatsoever. Pick any 1st world country where stranger danger is not preached and compare the abduction rates.
@FrankieArts apples and oranges. Countries will differ, even in the first world because each country will have its own individual culture which will make for differences. (That's not even addressing the problem of how one would measure the "preached" message.) The point is not to make kids paranoid but to make them aware of basic safety rules. (Don't get in a car with a stranger, etc.) There can be no harm in that.
@FiendsInRedSatin1 I think the point of this whole thing is that we focus on stranger danger so much when there are so many things out there that are much more dangerous. Kids should be aware of danger, but why do we choose strangers as the big scary thing and not, say, lightening? to use the example from the show, which is just as risky. Because stranger danger makes for good TV ratings and this country only cares about "protecting" us if it is from something sensationalist and newsworthy.
@FiendsInRedSatin1 The "harm" that you talk of is not in teaching our kids basic safety rules, it is in taking those safety rules from a media that doesn' t REALLY care about safety, they just want you to think that they know what is best, so you keep watching. The scary thing here is not about strangers, it is about the ability of the media to so efficiently distract us from the REAL dangers we face. If we waste our time on the small dangers, we won't ever find the real reasons we are scared.
I think the biggest problem with this episode is that P&T and the others deriding stranger danger is that they ignore human behavior as a major contributing factor in why abductions are fairly low. Parents have been telling their kids to be wary of strangers for a long time and, surprise, abductions are low. Take away the warnings, and abductions would likely increase. No one needs to overdo the warnings, but kids need to be aware that not every stranger is harmless.
As soon as the media decides to make something important, everyone seems to jump on the bandwagon to avoid feeling like bad people. If there is anything the U.S. needs to learn right now, it is that the media cannot be trusted when it works only for profit. No one would watch if we actually put NEWS on the news, only explosions and brutality make the cut because then we tune in. When the news cares more about making money then about protecting people, we shouldn't be taking advice from them.
SarahM103 1 year ago
You prob make that assumption without looking for any facts whatsoever. Pick any 1st world country where stranger danger is not preached and compare the abduction rates.
FrankieArts 1 year ago
@FrankieArts apples and oranges. Countries will differ, even in the first world because each country will have its own individual culture which will make for differences. (That's not even addressing the problem of how one would measure the "preached" message.) The point is not to make kids paranoid but to make them aware of basic safety rules. (Don't get in a car with a stranger, etc.) There can be no harm in that.
FiendsInRedSatin1 1 year ago
@FiendsInRedSatin1 I think the point of this whole thing is that we focus on stranger danger so much when there are so many things out there that are much more dangerous. Kids should be aware of danger, but why do we choose strangers as the big scary thing and not, say, lightening? to use the example from the show, which is just as risky. Because stranger danger makes for good TV ratings and this country only cares about "protecting" us if it is from something sensationalist and newsworthy.
SarahM103 1 year ago
@FiendsInRedSatin1 The "harm" that you talk of is not in teaching our kids basic safety rules, it is in taking those safety rules from a media that doesn' t REALLY care about safety, they just want you to think that they know what is best, so you keep watching. The scary thing here is not about strangers, it is about the ability of the media to so efficiently distract us from the REAL dangers we face. If we waste our time on the small dangers, we won't ever find the real reasons we are scared.
SarahM103 1 year ago
I think the biggest problem with this episode is that P&T and the others deriding stranger danger is that they ignore human behavior as a major contributing factor in why abductions are fairly low. Parents have been telling their kids to be wary of strangers for a long time and, surprise, abductions are low. Take away the warnings, and abductions would likely increase. No one needs to overdo the warnings, but kids need to be aware that not every stranger is harmless.
FiendsInRedSatin1 1 year ago