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Hell, things were even different in the 70s when I was a kid. Our playgrounds were paved, even under the equipment. Kids wearing casts were a common sight. Now playgrounds have a foot of mulch under the swings, etc. I can't remember the last time I saw some kid with a leg or arm in a cast.
Everything has a warning label now, to the point that people routinely ignore them. When something is truely dangerous, ignorant people don't know because they assume the warning label has no meaning. For example, my father teaches electronics labs in college. Today's students see "Warning high voltage" on circuits they are working in, and they take it as seriously as a warning label on a cup of coffee. My dad's really nervous that some student will kill themselves when a big fat capacitor discharges through their hearts and it stops beating. He tells them "this is really dangerous" and they hear the "blah blah blah" of Charlie Brown's parents on TV.
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