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The original was posted on /r/newzealand by /u/Haydasaurus on 2024-09-21 01:22:20+00:00.

Basically, my family is constantly going on about how it’s so dangerous out there these days and that I need to be very careful every time I go out alone & such. My hunch is that it’s not actually any more dangerous than when they used to be outside all the time back in the 80s & 90s and such but that social media makes it so much easier to see all the bad things happening everyday, whereas before it was more ‘out of sight, out of mind’.

Obviously it’s important to have street smarts and stay safe in public like in any decade but am I actually statistically more likely to have something bad happen to me now than in the past? Are there stats I can look at?

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