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Don't trust "advocate" figures! Remember the "missing children" crisis and the faces on the milk cartons? Turned out it was mostly hysteria created by activists. Remember all the hubub about "3 million homeless" in America? Turns out the advocates simply threw out a figure that they knew would get people's attention, even though it was grotesquely out of whack. We have 280 million people, and no more than 300,000 were homeless at any time, and most of them concentrated in the major population centers where they have rent control.
I have heard that MADD, especially, has evolved from a sincerely motivated movement to an institution, dependent for its funding on exaggerated claims and wild-eyed activism.
Be very wary of alcohol hysteria promoted by people whose livlihood depends on manufactured "crisis". Kids drinking themselves to death is ghastly; it's just hard for me to believe that it's any more common today than it has ever been.
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