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by izacus 3837 days ago
Hrmf, and your sentence isn't a hyperbole?

I mean, if we extend your logic, we should monitor everyone at all times because someone might just accidentally do something to hurt your child right? You never know why an extremely rare event like you mentioned could happen.
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icebraining 3837 days ago
Everyone is usually being monitored when around children of strangers; we just usually do so with human eyes instead of cameras. Babysitting is an exception, but why should it be?
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izacus 3837 days ago
That's... just not really true. Maybe in some parts of extreme helicopter parenting, but it's really not a global truth. If what you say is true in US then perhaps the upper poster wasn't so wrong about the state of the country :/.
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JoshTriplett 3837 days ago
The implication wasn't that parents are watching the kids at all times when they're with others, but that someone was. There are almost no situations in which kids are left alone with someone other than their parents, apart from babysitting.
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icebraining 3837 days ago
JoshTriplett is right, I was talking about other people, not necessarily parents. Also, I'm not from the US.
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