14 Moral Panics Over Historical Inventions

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14 Moral Panics Over Historical Inventions

Won't someone think of the children?!

Actually, people are constantly thinking of the children. Maybe thinking a little too hard, and objecting to a bunch of stuff that we know isn't so bad, once we've had a century or so to mull the matter over. 

NIGHTTIME air? It's poisonous! Up until nearly the 1900s, many were scared to go outside at night, and some didn't even want to leave the windows open after dark because they were afraid of getting sick.

Source: Wired

Shopping carts are unmanly! So men didn't like them when they were first invented in 1937. And to women, shopping carts resembled baby strollers, and they didn't care for the similarity.

Source: Wired

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