It's not just that the trust is lowered. It's fucking gone. You can more than likely know what your kids are capable of by now in a store if they're 7 or 8. That they won't start something stupid or get into trouble.
It's that you can't trust others not to do something stupid to your kids, and have others watch as it happens, and do nothing, while you're just trying to shop and get the hell out of there before things like that happen.
It's not just that we're no longer a high trust society, the trust is dead.
It's not just that the trust is lowered. It's fucking gone. You can more than likely know what your kids are capable of by now in a store if they're 7 or 8. That they won't start something stupid or get into trouble.
It's that you can't trust others not to do something stupid to your kids, and have others watch as it happens, and do nothing, while you're just trying to shop and get the hell out of there before things like that happen.
It's not just that we're no longer a high trust society, the trust is dead.