Then: 9-year-old kills lion, becomes a man

Now: 9-year-old not allowed to walk to friend's house without an adult

In our village the 8-10 year old boys would be responsible for herding the cows back home from the mountains at night as well as riding a horse to the town over to trade milk and cheese.

Both paths teach that man is the dangerous one.

The Maasai still exist, dude, and killing a lion is still a normal rite of passage.

> Due to a lack of lions, 9-year-olds today should kill a car instead, I guess.

You mean children should, for example, throw a big brick from a bridge over a highway - and then run away?!

This is not the kind of thing that I believe 9-year-olds should learn. :-(

I forgot the sarcasm marker.

Regardless, cars certainly predate on more 9-year-olds than lions do in this day and age.

Well yeah, the training between the two 9 year olds is entirely different. One was taught to fend off lions the other was given an ipad and youtube.

The same is probably true for most kids the last 100 (or more) years. When I was 9 I was busy training to hit balls with a stick.

That still makes you far more of a warrior than Jimmy Roblox.

bo staff, or baseball bat?

Baseball bat. I didn't know people used a bo staff to hit balls.

Well...

Lol. That didn't even register at first. Whoosh.

Children aren’t taunted into killing apex predators any more. What a fucking comment on society am I right.