Now, something that I do find implausible is how the purported deadly toxicity of children has such a stranglehold on the monsters inc world. Like they just straight-up aren't toxic to monsters at all! This is very conclusively established! And yet monster society has built an entire semi-militarized agency of hazmat-suited goons capable of arriving within thirty seconds of an exposure event with portable incinerators and decontamination chambers. And not even just at the power plant where exposure is a known occupational hazard, they can be anywhere! A kid is sighted at an upscale restaurant halfway across town and you've got hazmat SWAT immediately rappelling through the windows and an entire five-block radius is under lockdown within two minutes. It's basically unheard of that a child could exit their door, let alone escape the power plant, but they're ready for action miles away at the drop of a hat! Insane amounts of preparedness, insane amounts of funding and monsterpower, for literally no reason! Did no one ever bother to actually test the toxicity of children? Did no one ever notice that precisely zero recorded exposure events had ever caused so much as a head cold? Why is a stray sock making it back through the door a drop-everything-and-run health and safety emergency but walking over a kid's bedroom floor with no hazmat protection is just business as usual? Are they stupid? Also why was the agency's highest-ranking officer deep undercover as the power plant's desk clerk?
Can we rule out the possibility that kids are in fact toxic at very high concentrations, but the paranoia about exposure to them is the result of an overcautious linear no-threshold model of child toxicity?
