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I'd say irrational risk-ranking is a near-universal human weakness.

Parents fear kidnappers more than car accidents. The elderly fear whatever the news is telling them to fear more than heart disease or falling.


Kids fear quicksand and the Bermuda triangle.

...or maybe they don't fear it enough, given https://nos.nl/artikel/2590957-vier-jongens-uit-cementslib-b....

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