Anonymous

Eastbourne

Retired Engineer

How true!

And because of the risk averse society that is forced on us, we are bringing up, or probably already have produced, a generation that isn't capable of recognising danger when it stares them in the faces.

My generation (born 1945) played in children's playgrounds that would be closed down now, but we learned that falling off onto the rough concrete caused pain and bleeding, so we avoided doing it again. We learned by experience and most of us survived.

Those that didn't have proved Darwin's theories of "survival of the fittest"