[renewiltord]

I don't mind letting my child take the subway etc. but I think it's risky for them to cross the road here in San Francisco and if they take the subway they have to cross a couple of roads to get home. Not yet a concern, so I'll revisit in a few years.

I'm not afraid of other adults kidnapping my child. But I am afraid of other adults running her over. The Scientologists have been successful in popularizing their doctrine of "children are adults in small bodies" and so people will blame my child and possibly me if someone speeds through and kills her.

Consumer motor vehicles nowadays can do 0-60 in 3 seconds. The guy behind this extreme-performance motor isn't Ken Block. It's a sleep-deprived mother checking her phone.

[PoppinFreshDo]

Uhm, scientology? What?

[renewiltord]

It's a famous Scientology doctrine. People used to believe that children are not as capable as adults and therefore we should act differently and more carefully around them and look out for them. The Scientology doctrine is that they are "adults in small bodies" and so whatever they do is punishable as if an adult did it.

[lmm]

I don't think that tracks. Surely if the spread of that doctrine were the reason, we'd see children having more autonomy and a recognition that it's immoral to e.g. take their property, or confine them against their will.

[renewiltord]

That is entirely reasonable! Time to abandon the hypothesis.

[PoppinFreshDo]

I don't doubt that.

I doubt the part that our 400hp supra driving sleep deprived soccer mom is tear assing through the streets knows that.