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I was about to reply with something opposing your thought and then realized other countries don't have an age limit and they don't have a billion underage kids

I was about to reply with something opposing your thought and then realized other countries don't have an age limit and they don't have a billion underage kids dying of alcohol. If anything that probably happens more in the states where there is an age limit.

luckylion 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age I mean, yes, "other countries" don't have age limits, but it's pretty rare and it's overwhelmingly not what you'd call successful or stable countries.
- sbarre 5y ago
  You don't consider Europe stable or successful?
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - finiteseries 5y ago
    You don’t consider an age minimum of 18 to purchase alcohol an age limit? The link they posted even has a pretty picture within of the areas without age limits. They’re all mostly in Africa, Vietnam has a shout at stable and successful though.
    - chrisco255 5y ago
      Equivocating alcohol with video gaming is ridiculous. One is a toxic chemical that has physical, neurological effects on an individual and easily kills tens of thousands of people a year. The other is watching and interacting with pixels on a screen as you're doing at this very moment.
      - SebastianKra 5y ago
        It's well known that gambling- and gaming addictions exist. And more and more online games use psychological tactics to encourage spending.
      - finiteseries 5y ago
        The dose makes the poison. Emphasizing the physical effects of alcohol, and reducing the mental effects of any human computer interaction to “watching and interacting with pixels on a screen” isn’t the right way to go about it. There’s a difference between checking your feed and doom scrolling, there’s a difference between playing fortnite with friends, maybe even a little too late into the night, and compulsively grinding. The dose makes the poison.
        dbsmith83 5y ago
        Indeed, the effects is not the right way to go about it. Perhaps looking at the health statistics (and car accident statistics due to alcohol) would be a better way to compare the severity of the two problems
        coding123 5y ago
        Well, at this point we might as well blame social media feeds (which we can also call pixels on screens) for killing more people than drunk driving, at least in 2020 and 2021.
    - sbarre 5y ago
      Sorry I misread age of purchase with age of consumption (which can effectively be the same thing in most modern countries). My bad.

luckylion 5y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age I mean, yes, "other countries" don't have age limits, but it's pretty rare and it's overwhelmingly not what you'd call successful or stable countries.

sbarre 5y ago
You don't consider Europe stable or successful?
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- finiteseries 5y ago
  You don’t consider an age minimum of 18 to purchase alcohol an age limit? The link they posted even has a pretty picture within of the areas without age limits. They’re all mostly in Africa, Vietnam has a shout at stable and successful though.
  - chrisco255 5y ago
    Equivocating alcohol with video gaming is ridiculous. One is a toxic chemical that has physical, neurological effects on an individual and easily kills tens of thousands of people a year. The other is watching and interacting with pixels on a screen as you're doing at this very moment.
    - SebastianKra 5y ago
      It's well known that gambling- and gaming addictions exist. And more and more online games use psychological tactics to encourage spending.
    - finiteseries 5y ago
      The dose makes the poison. Emphasizing the physical effects of alcohol, and reducing the mental effects of any human computer interaction to “watching and interacting with pixels on a screen” isn’t the right way to go about it. There’s a difference between checking your feed and doom scrolling, there’s a difference between playing fortnite with friends, maybe even a little too late into the night, and compulsively grinding. The dose makes the poison.
      - dbsmith83 5y ago
        Indeed, the effects is not the right way to go about it. Perhaps looking at the health statistics (and car accident statistics due to alcohol) would be a better way to compare the severity of the two problems
      - coding123 5y ago
        Well, at this point we might as well blame social media feeds (which we can also call pixels on screens) for killing more people than drunk driving, at least in 2020 and 2021.
  - sbarre 5y ago
    Sorry I misread age of purchase with age of consumption (which can effectively be the same thing in most modern countries). My bad.