• garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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    2 years ago

    even by conservative estimates, between 4, and 20 thousand children are abducted by strangers in the US annually. that's between 100 and 500 per state every year.

    by non conservative estimates it's something like 800,000. so you may have some argument towards that number, but that shit fucking happens, especially when parents are fucking completely negligent and don't pay attention and let their kids roam throughout giant crowds.

    sorry, but before you spout off on shit like this, we're not talking about letting your kids go outside and play ball or ride bikes.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      by non conservative estimates it’s something like 800,000

      There are roughly 80 million children in the country, and you're telling me 1% of them are abducted by strangers per year?

      • Anemasta [any]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah. Those sound like Q-Anon style numbers from the "underground tunnels full of children" era.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          2 years ago

          https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/15/americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

          • Anemasta [any]
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            2 years ago

            I love that graph. I guess people's first instinct is to assume that every minority makes up for roughly the third of population.

              • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                This, but kind of unironically. The rate among autistic people is as high as 20% in some studies. On average, it probably hovers around 10%. Once the NT’s can stop being so embarrassed about nonconformity they’ll come around

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          2 years ago

          If it were 800,000, then 1 in every 5 children would have been abducted at one time.

          That figure doesn't pass the common sense test.

        • Opposition [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          hanging with kids you don’t know makes you look like a fucking creeper.

          That's so sad. Children and adults should be able to be friends.

            • Opposition [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Doesn't matter. Our entire society is just as hostile as you towards child-adult relationships. Even actual parents have had the police called on them because they were with their (adopted) kids that didn't look like they could be related.

              Other countries aren't like that. It's really relaxed because those countries didn't have decades of milk carton propaganda scaring the shit out of them about "stranger danger".

              • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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                2 years ago

                Yeah. Fuck Japan, but this just makes me think of that tv show about Japanese kids going around doing little errands like going down to the store, and all the adults around are very nice and willing to help them. In the US people would be terrified to go near a 4 year old with their parents not present, and the cops would probably be called.

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      that shit fucking happens

      a lot of bad things happen in the world, this is not a common one which should take up space in your brain or influence your decisions. if you want to keep your kids from being abducted first make sure they never go anywhere near their family members lol

    • Chapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Egg on face time: Fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year between 2010–2017. sauce

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        edit-2
        2 years ago

        The vast majority [of reported disappearances], typically more than 95 percent, ran away.

        Makes a lot of sense.