[stickfigure]

I do think people - and especially kids - are generally nicer and more accepting than they were back in the 80s when I grew up. I wonder if this is related to the fairly dramatic drop in violent crime statistics we've been seeing over the last several decades?

[vanviegen]

There may be a connectedion to reductions in lead-poisoning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesi...

[pbhjpbhj]

Lead-free petrol helped.

[rbanffy]

It’s fun to imagine that an alternative reality where lead was never added to petrol. We’d be colonising neighbouring solar systems by now and living in a post-scarcity society.