>Western society is probably the safest it's ever been, so we're seeing what's arguably the highest incidence ever of these behaviours in young people.
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>IMO education isn't, and can't be the answer - they need exposure to danger. And no, you can't do that safely.

There was once a statistic about the number of injuries among the athle... sportsm... sportspersonae, and it turned out that the least happened to those who were playing barefoot while they were young. They learned to watch out.