Are People Scary?
How did the world become a place where we fear others, sue them, keep our children away from them, while we know little, if anything, about who they are and what they think? Let’s have a look at the impact of statistics on our beliefs and find out how we can choose to brighten up our world again. My childhood memories, and those of many of the people I know, include being outside and playing with other kids, having warm, familiar people around us and generally having faith in other humans. As a child, strangers were interesting to me and I knew that the adults in my life, even if they were hard on me, would help me in case of trouble. When we were kids, we rode our bikes or walked everywhere. Most of the time, our parents had no idea where we were, but they knew we were OK. If they needed us, it would take them only a few questions to find our whereabouts or get a message to us. For the most part, life was free, both for the kids and for the parents, and people were kind. Nowadays, peo
