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Are you possibly underrating the extent to which critics know quite well that the origins are safety-related and are critics precisely for that reason? They see it as another case of fears of crime out of proportion to the actual danger and actual crime rate (basically non-existent for Halloween candy). Here is one of several critical posts (from a decade ago) by the Free Range Kids woman.

https://www.freerangekids.com/the-problem-with-trunk-or-treat/

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