At the opposite extreme, is the trend towards creating excessively safe environments for children to play in. Gone is a lot of playground equipment deemed “too dangerous.” Diving boards are gone from many pools. Everybody acknowledges that childhood 30 years ago had much less direct adult supervision and restrictions, and often consider that a good thing. What is Creator’s perspective?

That kind of nostalgia for "the good old days" is inherently a kind of manipulation that happens when what is exalted is the fighter, the warrior, the strong and powerful figure who can best others in a physical confrontation through fisticuffs or an adroit use of weaponry. Such mastery has little redeeming value, being a product of a distorted, dysfunctional, corrupted world. There is little glory in being the best at savagery when it is entirely non-divine to begin with. This is a distortion of thinking, showing that the world is upside down in its values. When you are the best at conquering others and forcing your will on them, there is little difference between the conquering hero you might see in the mirror and an archcriminal who has bested the competition and ended up on the top of the heap, gaining the most while crushing one’s enemies. This may seem like a harsh and exaggerated view that is overpristine in its demands. The idea it is impossible to be Christ-like or imbued with godliness and achieve a kind of moral perfection is a delusion that is foisted on you with mind control. The reality is, even children can see the folly of using bullying in order to get ahead. The fact such conduct is often overlooked or even promoted, in the adult world particularly, is a measure of morality and ethics of those in power who make the rules. They get the world they want or the world that is ordained for them by their puppet masters running things from behind the scenes—it is the interlopers who decide what your governments will do or not do. Those elected officials or tyrants who seize power are minions of the darkness that, in turn, truly governs how things will be. So when people come along and point out the folly of needless competition, especially for young children who might be widely varied in their maturity level, some lacking physical capabilities because they have not yet had their growth spurt compared to others, and so on, to promote the idea of winners and losers and coach them to whip them into a frenzy of expectation so they will win and not be a disappointment to their parents, teachers, coaches, and peers is subjecting them to a very high-pressure world and this can be quite destructive. It will harden and reward those children with greater prowess who may be unflappable, by virtue of their personality and relative stability, but that does not make them more deserving or better than the weaker kids. Competitive activities widen the gap, they encourage the strong to become mini tyrants in how they treat their fellows, who they see as lesser in ability, and they dishearten and demoralize the less capable who don’t measure up and may feel inadequate throughout their life by gaining chronic anxiety that never goes away. So those who wish to tame the playground and remove hazards are not undermining the children by falsely encouraging them to be soft and not risk-takers. Their lives will be filled with many, many risks that are unavoidable. Those things that call for a reckless disregard for a potential harm or are truly pointless through engineering physical contact sports when who wins or loses is really a pointless exercise, we would say the do-gooders, the gentle souls who want the children to make nice and play well together have the high ground here. The world would be a better place if it were not modeled after needless competition to always have winners and losers created with any endeavor—that is a tarnishing of your culture and it will have many adverse consequences seen and unseen.