You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.
If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.