Originally posted by Matadon
We make idols out of professional athletes, but we scoff at the everyday ones. It's a sad state of affairs.
What's up with this? This really has me baffled. Maybe someday someone will explain to me why some people love to wear mock "football jerseys," complete with the number and name of a famous player, in XXXXXXXL size. Why not just get out and exercise and quit idolizing people?
Kids are driven to- and from school; because it's "not safe" to let them walk or ride a bike. I'm sorry, but despite the media attention paid to kidnappings and such, they are fairly rare occurrence; your child is more likely to die on campus or in a fatal auto accident than they are to be kidnapped.
People live in fear of certain things because they are taught to be afraid of them. This fear, of course, has nothing to do with reality. It is far more likely for a teenager to die in an automobile accident than by anything else, including AIDS, drugs, gang violence, or crime. It's the #1 killer of teenagers--car crashes.