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How does the story relate to a “societal decline”?

Bad, evil people is probably a constant. The societal decline would be parents etc not teaching their sons and daughters about the dangers in the world. Why don't parents do this? Do they want to preserve their child's "innocence" regardless of the price that might be paid?

I think people are far more aware of the dangers than they used to be. They just get their information online instead of through parents.

For all of its faults the Internet has been very good at revealing what does happen - sometimes - as opposed to what should happen.

> The societal decline would be parents etc not teaching their sons and daughters about the dangers in the world.

Nonsense.

Kids these days are as well informed and trained on threats as any kids in living memory. They aren’t even permitted to walk to school, in many cases, and are trained on how to cope with people coming to their schools to kill them.

Well if you read the article instead of rushing to write "Nonsense!", to feel like a superior hacker, you would know that the victims were children and young adults a while ago. Let's hope kids today get better advice!

The societal decline was local police not giving a shit until 15+ victims organized and advocated for themselves for years.

That's not exactly a new form of system failure.

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