Monday, June 30, 2008

Ethics: Should Kids Fear Strangers?

On Friday we were having a discussion about whether you would trust a priest who asked you to watch his luggage at an airport, and the issue of social trust naturally came up. And after someone called to challenge my discussion of the harmful effects of fearing people all the time, I thought it would be a good discussion to ask whether it’s a good thing that we teach our children to fear strangers.

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