Fear of "the bad people"

[milktree]

I saw a reference to these jokers in a Duracell battery commercial:

http://www.brickhouse-childsafety.com/

No wonder we're scared of everything all the time.

Or perhaps, the fact that we're scared of everything all the time is
why these people are in business at all.

There's almost no need for this sort of product, they stir up fear about "bad things", then sell a product to fill that artificial niche.

That attitude explains things like this too

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-generations.html

'course, some of that can be explained by what kids need or want to go to are closer now than they used to be.

We're so hosed.