Another day, another ridiculous conversation about stranger abductions

[conuly]

If one more person tries to conflate child abductions with child trafficking I will not be responsible for my actions. These are two different problems! Different and, as near as I can tell, entirely unrelated.

Relatedly, if you're going to laugh when I tell you the crime rate has decreased, you'd better be able to back up your response with the numbers. I'll wait.

Ugh. I've asked this before and never gotten a satisfactory response: Why do people want to be scared? Why are they just so resistant to hearing anything but "be afraid" every waking moment!?

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[conuly]

Mmm. That explains some of them, but this sort of fear infests the left too.

[frandroid]

Some left-wingers are RWAs, they just don't know what that is and aren't self-aware. Many communists in particular. They cries for "democracy!!!" are really cries of "why don't you do what I want" when you probe them a bit.

[sabotabby]

I think we all suffer from Scared Prey Brain. Self-awareness interrogates that. Like we all have an emotional reaction to "holy shit bad things happening to children"—it's deeply biological. But the critical reaction, based on *gestures vaguely at all of history*, is to take 5 seconds and question whether or not this is likely a true story or nah.