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by cebu 721 days ago
Maybe the world is dangerous, but maybe that doesn’t mean we have to be afraid. It’s dangerous business stepping out your front door after all
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exactly. Also, there's so much adventure to be experienced, so much beauty to appreciate. It's worth it. Also, the world _does not have to be experienced as constantly dangerous_ and it's important to allow a respite from that message.

That the world is dangerous is self-evident, but it's not interesting to me to force that message into places it ought not be. And I think adults conceptions of 'the world is dangerous' does not always match the harm as experienced by children. They know the world is dangerous. They experience it all the time.

Of course. It certainly depends on context. Maybe some children need a respite from safe places. Others, an invite into them
Is it though? I mean yes, but one argument I would have against overly glorifying some of these fairy tiles is that the way the world is dangerous today is very different from the way it was two hundred years ago.