Re: Who got burned?
I guess the point I am trying to make is........so what? If the kid had slipped getting into a ride in Atlantic City would it be the father's fault because there were shoes on the market with better grip? He just took his son to the beach.<br /><br />I guess it would be his fault too if a bolt of lightning suddenly struck the ferris wheel without warning while his child was up there. He and everyone else who's child was on the ferris wheel would be prosecuted for neglect or child endangerment while everyone else in the park goes free because nothing happened to their children.<br /><br />I can count the number of times I have used sunscreen in my life on one hand, and I have NO regrets. However, everytime I ever used the stuff I gotten everything from rashes to burns in my eyes which can be worse than sunburn.<br /><br />Maybe some people have forgotten this, sunscreen is an invention. It wasn't always around. Before it was invented there was no refrigeration, no air conditioners, and no antibacterial cleansers. Nearly all people spent a lot more time outdoors than pretty much anyone does now, and guess what? They got burned like mad all the time. Their children got burned. So they used stuff like mud to cover up, but the mud dries and then takes the moisture out of your skin, and that is basicly the same as a burn because it dies just the same. The point is they made it without all this pampering crap we have now, and I bet very few people died due to sunburn unless it was in a desert. And even then they die of internal dehydration and delerium before they're really worried about skin.<br /><br />Are you aware that you are exposing your body to an UNNATURAL amount of one, probably unatural, substance to protect it from a NATURAL amount of a natural substance that it was evolved/created to withstand(whichever you believe). Your skin is probably dissolving slowly, or being permanently mutated in some other way by that stuff and you don't even know it. <br /><br />Is it a crime to take your child outside without sunblock? Hell no! Is it a crime to apply sunblock that is approved by the same FDA that allowed fen-phen, IUD's, and all the cancer causing food we consume onto the market? It probably should be, because you never know what that stuff is doing to you...