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Giving a child a smartphone is coming from a place of tremendous privilege. Phone plans aren’t cheap, phones aren’t cheap (at least phones that are usable aren’
by vxNsr 3y ago
Giving a child a smartphone is coming from a place of tremendous privilege. Phone plans aren’t cheap, phones aren’t cheap (at least phones that are usable aren’t). It’s baffling to me that you solved your problem by giving your child an incredibly addicting device that most child development experts compare to hard drugs.
- wpietri 3y agoAre you seriously trying to suggest that it's equivalently risky giving a 10 year old a phone or heroin?
- vxNsr 3y agoIs this a real question? Do you have difficulty understanding metaphors?
- wpietri 3y agoI don't. Which is why I asked. If you mean something else, perhaps you could be so kind as to say it.
- vxNsr 3y agoYou do appear to have difficulty as you took what I said in metaphor and applied it literally. that's not how metaphors work.
- wpietri 3y agoYou literally did not use a metaphor. You claimed that other people were making comparisons. But a metaphor is just one kind of comparative tool.
- vxNsr 3y agoYou continue to obstinately be overly semantic instead accepting that not everything is perfectly literal.
- wpietri 3y agoI understand not everything is perfectly literal. However, your literal point is bad and foolish, and if you were making a different one, it's still not clear what it is. So I'm just going to collapse this discussion believing that you didn't really have a point, and were just running your mouth with some hyperbole you coulnd't in the end justify.
- ndriscoll 3y agoHeroin no, but something like amphetamine/Adderall actually seems like a reasonable comparison to me.