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Sounds like something out of Nazi Germany. I'm all for people engaging with the community, but enforced?

abledon 7y ago
"dude F that S*, I'm staying home, rolling a bunch of fat ones, and grinding on my level 80 Warlock, then logging on to grind up my PathOfExile smurf" (repeat loop for next 40 years) -- lots of people who are no way voluntarily going to break their comfortable cocoon created by addictive gaming & drugs.
- thatoneuser 7y ago
  Well then that's their choice and they will have to live and die with the consequences.
  - abledon 7y ago
    You could say that for offenders and people who are arrested for crimes/drugs fall into prison system — we have systems in place to reintegrate them back into society —- but the phenomenon of how humans can buy groceries for 2 months, stay inside and entertain themselves , you can’t ‘discipline’ that and schedule those people for parole or counseling —- we’re gonna have a big problem in 10-20 years when more and more people stay inside and have less meaningful relationships
    - ericd 7y ago
      If they haven't done anything to hurt anyone else, that's their right. It's part of being free, that you're free to hurt yourself.
    - thatoneuser 7y ago
      Criminals don't have to do programs either. You're claiming it's worth imposing a forced attendance because some people are a social. Its their right to be so and mine to tell you to eat a bag of dicks if you think you can force me to do something.
- michaelmrose 7y ago
  I've been together with my wife for 18 years, married for 14 and I met her playing the original Everquest.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    Such cases are extreme outliers.
    - jessaustin 7y ago
      This is unnecessarily dismissive. Since online interactions are more common over time, we would expect marriages (or anything else, really) resulting from online interactions to also become more common over time.
      - close04 7y ago
        They might be but it's possible that the percentage of such interactions that result in a marriage won't offset the lost potential marriages that came from more "classical" forms of interaction. And when I say "lost" I mean when people start focusing more and more on online dating having expectations other than meaningful relationships/marriage. The question isn't if online interactions can produce meaningful relationships but rather what is the expectation of people that do it this way. Because if the expectation is that online dating is just for one night stands and "fun" then the increase in such interactions won't bring an equivalent increase in marriages.
Cthulhu_ 7y ago
Strongly encouraged, then? I mean I do believe social education should be part of one's upbringing - it's not going to happen for a lot of people otherwise.
- RandomInteger4 7y ago
  Strongly encouraged is a lot better.

"dude F that S*, I'm staying home, rolling a bunch of fat ones, and grinding on my level 80 Warlock, then logging on to grind up my PathOfExile smurf" (repeat loop for next 40 years) -- lots of people who are no way voluntarily going to break their comfortable cocoon created by addictive gaming & drugs.

thatoneuser 7y ago
Well then that's their choice and they will have to live and die with the consequences.
- abledon 7y ago
  You could say that for offenders and people who are arrested for crimes/drugs fall into prison system — we have systems in place to reintegrate them back into society —- but the phenomenon of how humans can buy groceries for 2 months, stay inside and entertain themselves , you can’t ‘discipline’ that and schedule those people for parole or counseling —- we’re gonna have a big problem in 10-20 years when more and more people stay inside and have less meaningful relationships
  - ericd 7y ago
    If they haven't done anything to hurt anyone else, that's their right. It's part of being free, that you're free to hurt yourself.
  - thatoneuser 7y ago
    Criminals don't have to do programs either. You're claiming it's worth imposing a forced attendance because some people are a social. Its their right to be so and mine to tell you to eat a bag of dicks if you think you can force me to do something.
michaelmrose 7y ago
I've been together with my wife for 18 years, married for 14 and I met her playing the original Everquest.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  Such cases are extreme outliers.
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    This is unnecessarily dismissive. Since online interactions are more common over time, we would expect marriages (or anything else, really) resulting from online interactions to also become more common over time.
    - close04 7y ago
      They might be but it's possible that the percentage of such interactions that result in a marriage won't offset the lost potential marriages that came from more "classical" forms of interaction. And when I say "lost" I mean when people start focusing more and more on online dating having expectations other than meaningful relationships/marriage. The question isn't if online interactions can produce meaningful relationships but rather what is the expectation of people that do it this way. Because if the expectation is that online dating is just for one night stands and "fun" then the increase in such interactions won't bring an equivalent increase in marriages.

Cthulhu_ 7y ago

Strongly encouraged, then? I mean I do believe social education should be part of one's upbringing - it's not going to happen for a lot of people otherwise.

RandomInteger4 7y ago
Strongly encouraged is a lot better.