why give kids nightmares?

Because suggesting them to fear that which isn't (fiction) tempts them to ignore that which is (reality).

If modern life is so great, why is it so poorly thought-out?

Because everything is (living) in response to (dying) and wanting to define it (great or poor) ignores the need to resist as the living within the dying.

you care so much about our well-being, why is it that you always do the opposite?

To be implies out of; hence being choice imply to be out of balance (need/well). Wanting the well-being of others ignores the need to sustain self as choice within balance; hence causing imbalance...the opposite.

If people are so educated, why are they so uneducated?

Because to stand under (understanding) the suggested information by others; tempts one to ignore growing comprehension within all perceivable inspiration. Education by suggestion represents domestication of free will to the will of others.

If the police is there for us, why is it that their presence gives me the heebie-jibbies even though I've never done anything to harm another?

Because you ignore resisting the natural order (being moved from inception towards death) for following suggested orders (towards death). Law enforcement uses force of suggestion upon your ment (mind; memory) to keep you in ignorance of natural law.

f I am of this place, why do I feel so viscerally out of place?

Because you ignore yet participate within impression (perception) towards compression (comprehension) for either expression (growth) or repression (loss). Living within the process of dying implies being within; by; out of and therefore in response to aka a transmuted ingredient out of base.