Yeah you are right about that. It's a weird world we live in now. But I'll still have to go back to a point I made eariler, what's that silly screen or those push pull caps going to do to keep a kid or an adult for that matter, from getting burned while playing with a gas can?
Maybe, but every situation is different. Some kids are around things all the time and have parents who teach them well. I know of a farming family whose 10 year old run the grain cart (YouTube 'Millennial Farmer'). Pulling a 70k cart with an 8-series Deere. Well supervised and capable of it. There's also a video of a 6-year old playing a drum solo that most adults couldn't master. There are 11-year olds that are capable of babysitting other kids. On the other hand I've also known 11-year olds that I wouldn't trust to stay home by themselves for a couple hours or send them down the driveway to get the mail along a county road because they just weren't mature enough. It should be up to the parents to decide what their kids are capable of (within reason, of course, but not nitpicked by worst-case what-ifs). And society should do a good job educating people well enough that they are capable of being 'good parents'.Just because you and I survived childhood doesn't mean we should have been doing the things we did with the things that we did them with.
Yeah your right too...........I keep forgetting that it seems that kids in this day and age are different than they were back when I was growing up. Hell, when I was 8, I was going around the neighborhood cutting other peoples grass wearing out my dads lawn mower and burning up all his gas, in the lawn mower of course. And yes, I used to go hunting at that age with my own 20 ga I might add and never once ever thought about taking that gun to school let along to go out and shoot someone. Back then we settled our disputes with our fist and after it was over we would shake hands and still be buddies. When they stopped letting kids work out their own little petty hissy fits by themselves is when all this goofy crap started.
You can't mandate stupid out of people.
Yeah I remember going out with my dad on weekends to run his errands which usually ended up at Louie's bar and Grill. I thought I was really something sitting their next to my dad drinking my Nehi soda and eating peanuts while he and his buddy drank down cool one after cool one. And, I do remember a time or two to be asked to drive the old 60 Chevy out the parking lot to take them both home.True you can't send a 6 year old to the local bar to get beer any more. I used make that run almost every evening.
No, but some product injuries aren’t the result of being stupid, but simply defective products. For example, the exploding fuel tanks in certain 1970s vehicles. Regulations resulted in design changes that improved safety.