Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 17 June 2015 02:37:22PM 4 points [-]

Interesting, so the cost of raising a non-religious child is higher the nicer your family's life. Once, when my son was about 4 I told him not to stare at the sun else he go blind. He responded by saying that being blind wouldn't be so bad because he could read using braille. I wonder if a consequence of schools teaching inclusion of the physically disabled is that children don't fear as much becoming disabled themselves and so take more risks.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 June 2015 03:45:38PM 6 points [-]

children don't fear as much becoming disabled themselves and so take more risks.

This looks like a counterfactual to me :-) I suspect that children nowadays take considerably less risks than 50 years ago, never mind a hundred or two.

Comment author: James_Miller 17 June 2015 04:48:53PM 4 points [-]

True.