Can you believe parents still allow kids to go trick or treating and eat the candy strangers give them?

Hehe! I was responding to and laughing at a joke from the attached George Carlin video. I'm American, and incidentally, so was George Carlin.

If you're able to tolerate dark satire, you should watch it. If not, definitely don't! : )

I'll check it out. 

So you think saying to someone their "paranoid to a fault", "watching too much Nancy Grace & her bat crap", "thin skinned" & "chicken little" is throwing a broad net, not specifically directed and not belittling someone?  Oh, that's right, YOUR wording is merely a "window into the level of passion".   I have to admit I know nothing about bat crap but you can try to flower your words up by saying they're a "window into your level of passion"; however, it reeks more like bull sh1t to me.

Hahaha

Why should I?????   Your opening question is phrased to make parents feel bad and/or minimize their abilities of being a good parent  because they let them go trick or treating.  Your judging them negatively  in a passive-aggressive manner by phrasing it as a question. Based on debunked dangers to boot.


Hell yeah Nancy Grace is bat crap nuts and a fear monger. 

My comment is hardly personal.  I know absolutely nothing about you so you're incorrect that I don't like you.  I neither like you nor dislike you and when I'm done making my comment or comments, you won't even enter into my thoughts, because I will move on to something else.   I respond to words on a page, not people. You are correct about one thing though, you SHOULDN'T "care" if someone likes you or dislikes you.  This is the internet.  You should reserve your caring for the people in your "real life".    I ask questions and I answer questions.  I'm not responsible for how others "feel" about what I say, THEY ARE.  I am no more responsible for how they react than they are responsible for how I react.  

I hope the next time a stranger walks up to your child and says "Hey pretty little girl, you want some candy?", I sure hope you raised her to speak to strangers and she thanks the nice man.  

Yes, they very well could be.

It's very true that anything can be tampered with, even off the shelf products.  Thank you.

Lago,

You know...

lol?

I'm not trusting children to know when something dangerous could happen.  That is my job.

I agree.

That's kinna how I felt when I asked the question.  I say why take the chance if you don't have to.  It's just as easy buying candy and replacing the candy they got with that. 

That is exactly what I just said.  But the question was not about people like you and I, S&P.  A lot of parents don't THINK.  This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at November 1, 2016 6:34 PM MDT

Some people do know all their neighbors and take their children only to them and there are others that take them to people's houses they don't know.

I do understand the balancing act parents have to do when it comes to their children and protecting them.  We want them to learn to be responsible and independent but we also want to protect them from potential harm.  Then would you also allow your child to eat a candy bar given to her by a strange man walking down the street?  Sounds like the same thing to me. 

But of course! Haven't read that delightful children's book "Strangers Have the Best Candy... and Other Advice for Youngsters"?

I guess what I'm saying is that some people think that all parents who allow their children to play football are irresponsible and foolish. You may be one of them, and that's okay. In all seriousness, though... there are truly horrible parents who completely neglect and abuse their children. I guess that my opinion is that allowing children to eat a reasonable amount of candy that has been checked for tampering, once a year, and scrubbing the hell out of their teeth afterwards, isn't abusive or neglectful.