Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@isobel I get the impression with some parents child raising it is seen as someone else's responsibility.

@isobel Things are a little different now.

Common sense should kick in however, but that is hardly something that is common place these days.

@isobel I think as a chef you would not normally walk around the streets with a knife on your person (e,g down trousers or in a coat pocket) , it would be in a case of come sort if you are going from home to work or from your place of work to another restaurant.

Your work ID or other documents would prove why you are in possession of the knife

@isobel The whole issue is complex, thing is we have had poverty in the past BUT there was parental accountability and responsibility at one time.

So you have a good point, as for solutions. Banning knives / bladed articles won't work as people find something else to hurt someone with usually.

@isobel Indeed,Ii just don't want to give some impression to people that we think it is some sort of perfect place to be.

@isobel indeed hence the first part of my blog post here

https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/facebook-manipulated-689-003-users-emotions-for-science

I am trying make a strong point in that you can't be committed to safeguarding and keeping people safe while at the same time support the use of a platform that is causing more harm than good.

At least I am prepared to say that Fediverse isn't perfect. It isn't, nothing will be, but so why pretend it is the perfect solution.

@isobel This could also explain why certain crimes seem out of control here in the UK (e.g knife crime) people don't want to accept kids as young as 13 can go around and stab others to death. Result is no one wants to discuss and come up with robust effective solutions.

Meanwhile more people die.

Same as with the current crazy of labelling teachers paedophiles on tik tok, to get a grip on that means accepting it is happening, accepting there is little excuse and do something about it.

@isobel

This is why I want to support the campaigns from people like Sense about science.

https://senseaboutscience.org/
https://askforevidence.org/index

I am sure platforms such as Facebook just make the issue worse, people don't want to, or are just too lazy to look things up properly, result is just mis information spreading around about all sorts of things, usually this defies even common sense,

@isobel Well yes i agree there. But maybe not understand science papers but be able to do own research and find proper reliable information.

As for evidence but understand how to ask yourself the right questions.

@newsbot I wonder if they have also changed name to Meta to circumvent regulations that are intended to target facebook

@isobel People also want instant updates which is never a good thing.

@isobel The government can't win, but they need to get the right balance so the right information is given out.

Either that or we need better education so we can make science papers more available so people can make their own minds up