Very often we get e-Mails about when we were kids. It speaks of us sleeping in cribs with lead based paints. It tells of us riding bicycles without helmets. It even tells about summer evening rides in the back of a pick up truck. And it notes, “We survived.”
Governmental agencies have stepped forth to help us raise children in a safer environment. One example that comes to mind is that cords on blinds must be shorter. No lead based paints on toys. They ban toys with small parts that could be swallowed. They stop the sales of furniture that couls cause harm and death. And the list goes on.
This is not all bad. Their intentions are good.
But I bring this to note because yesterday I heard on the news where the government is banning the sale of certain China-made, off-road motorbikes and off road four wheelers because the tires’ valve stems and the gears of these vehicles have lead in them. And if a child licks the gears or sucks on the valve stems, they could get lead poisoning.
Maybe our government agencies have become too aggressive in their safeguarding of children. If children are licking the gears of motorcycles and off-road vehicles, maybe it’s time we let natural selection occur.
I guess that sounds rather insensitive, but . . .
Oh well, common sense died a long time ago.
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