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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Yeah, what in the hell is up with that? There is some kind of psychological thing going on with people when they see a singular incident of something in the news and immediately assume it's going on everywhere. "I heard they are molesting kids in daycare! (Somewhere, in another state 600 miles away.) That's it I'm going to get my kid out of day care because it's run by perverts!"..............
And they wonder why we think they're stupid.
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The sociologists have, in their sociologist way, half a handle on it. These things are called "moral panics." See wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic