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I don't think there is a correlation between being allowed to run around without supervision and deaths of children. For example, if you build dangerous roads everywhere and lots of kids die in car accidents, maybe something could be done about the roads, not the free roaming kids.

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> if you build dangerous roads everywhere and lots of kids die in car accidents, maybe something could be done about the roads, not the free roaming kids.

That is accepted that pedestrians need to behave so that cars can drive around at relatively high speeds in very public and shared spaces is an unbelievable accomplishment by the automobile industry.

Just yesterday, we were standing 30m downwind of somebody idling their mangy Vespa, and we could smell the stink from their partial combustion. As you do. At the same time, it's totally unacceptable for somebody themselves to stink like that.

I guess it's similar with car noise. People would go nuts if everybody was, I don't know, humming all the time outside. But car noises are normal.

As has become popular to say on Twitter lately: cities aren't loud, cars are

People seem to tolerate birds and crickets

> I don't think there is a correlation between being allowed to run around without supervision and deaths of children.

That sounds like a good case against supervising children at all, but I don't believe it's true.

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