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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
by 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 agoEquivocating 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 agoIt's well known that gambling- and gaming addictions exist. And more and more online games use psychological tactics to encourage spending.
- finiteseries 5y agoThe 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 agoIndeed, 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 agoWell, 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 agoSorry I misread age of purchase with age of consumption (which can effectively be the same thing in most modern countries). My bad.