I’ve found that if you talk about child sexual predation by strangers on the internet loudly enough, concerned friends will start telling you you are sounding like a [conspiracy theorist]...The specific details of these panics are not meaningless. Rather, they reflect genuine fears, often projecting onto a single group of supposed evildoers what is in reality a much more diffuse pattern of vulnerability.

A "diffuse pattern of vulnerability" perhaps implies the fact that there are tens of millions of kids using social media - it's impossible to know how in danger these kids really are.

Believing in enemies you can act against can feel empowering at least.

This relates back to the big picture, but I think oftentimes, people feel powerless when dealing with their own kids, because, "all my friends bought their kids their own phone, so I'm gonna do that, too - because that's what's cool, and I wanna be a cool parent."

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. - Ephesians 6:12

Sitting with the knowledge that no one knows how to stop the mall from hell next door is just terrifying.

The majority of people go along with the way things are rather than changing their ways thru Christianity because they don't believe in the story of Jesus. So instead, we cast out the baby with the bath water & allow the devil to destroy our family in the process.