[bonesmoses]

I'm not entirely certain normalizing hyperbole makes sense here. There's a massive difference between ensuring children are safe and supported, and never letting them do anything without supervision or face any consequences up to and including when they go to college or join the workforce. There's an equally vast gap between taking eyes off a child for a few seconds, and outright neglect. Likewise, there's a universe of difference between basic precautions and the equivalent of a Safe Space (tm).

Yeah, I get that people are going to naturally jump to conclusions. Yet glossing over the minutiae is exactly how we got into the situation where everyone is jumping at shadows in the first place. Everyone's a rapist! Children are being mowed down in the streets! Drugs are everywhere! Never go outside! Anything else is literal child abuse! How dare you!

How does catering to social media because it might overreact fix that? How is that encouraging empathy? What makes this a "big problem?" Isn't relaxing our iron grip just a tiny fragment and rolling some of this hysteria back slightly do exactly that? Empathy for the situation instead of zealous indignation?