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I agreed with you until the last line. Company that design phones and especially apps are designing them with addiction in mind.
by elcomet 5y ago
I agreed with you until the last line.
Company that design phones and especially apps are designing them with addiction in mind.
- systemvoltage 5y agoIsn’t addiction a personal responsibility? It’s so easy for us to externalize what we should be more vigilant about. There is an endless sea of addicting things in the world. Passing responsibility to someone else isn’t solving the problem, it’s playing the victim card.
- elcomet 5y agoI don't believe it's only a matter of personal responsibility. We have laws to help prevent addiction from gambling, alcohol, tobacco... When a company hires neuroscientists to design an addictive product, how can you say the responsibility of addiction falls on the users ? Would you say the company's behaviour is ethical, or desired if it leads to profits ?
- systemvoltage 5y agoThat’s true, I think these laws highlight the dangers of substance use. They inform people. We need to do the same for iPhone usage, however, majority of the responsibilities lies on the people - They need to be adept at recognizing the dangers of any addiction and act accordingly.
- emteycz 5y agoSubstances are addictive by causing changes of actual physical biochemistry by chemical means. I have never seen any proof that phone apps are causing similar biochemical changes, people just like doing it a lot, but could stop at any time without any biologically determined issue.