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SierraGold
What ever happened to that normal feeling called fear? Has it totally gone by the wayside? If so, what caused it? Could it be the additives in the processed and pre-packaged foods?
A couple of thoughts on this.
First, young adults, especially those in their late teens to late twenties have historically been more fearless than the general population at large. Maybe this is a genetic makeup of human beings since that's historically the prime age for human warriors and soldiers of war.
And a newer second factor is possibly that more young people I've noticed over the years are growing up in a far more sheltered lifestyle, where their parents have studiously made a point to shelter their offspring from every type of imaginable risk. Even a simple rite of growing up, that of traveling to one's school by their one's accord (by foot or bicycle) have been deprived to many kids today whose parents insist on driving them back and forth from school because it's the safest thing to do.
These kids who grow up in a too sheltered environment I think grow up with no real sense of physical risk because everything they has experienced in the life have been made overly safe for them. Even play yard equipment has been changed so there's a far less chance of a child falling down awkwardly on a too steep slide or a too high jungle gym and hurting themselves. So if they have grown up in an environment where they themselves never had to worry about their personal safety, because anything that might have put their physical safety at risk has been eliminated from their young lives, how can they fully recognize and appreciate the magnitude of dangers that might otherwise be readily apparent to the rest of us.
Hence, the need of warning signs and guard rails.
But at times, even those aren't enough.