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I don't think the personal responsibility of someone with a developing mind is any match for 10-20 years of extensive AB testing.
by gaze 2y ago
I don't think the personal responsibility of someone with a developing mind is any match for 10-20 years of extensive AB testing.
- squigz 2y agoWell... no, but neither is it a match for, say, thousands of years of drug abuse. And yet... Perhaps our parents have something to do with that?
- barbazoo 2y agoWhen I was a kid, all drugs were illegal, at least to me as a minor. My parents had the alcohol is bad and cigarettes are bad talks with me but even if I wanted to drink and smoke, it was hard to access until I got closer to the age where it was allowed anyway.
- squigz 2y agoWhen I was a kid, all drugs were illegal to me too. Yet my parents had cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, and weed in the house. Me and my siblings didn't touch them. That has something to do with the law?
- sickofparadox 2y agoLikely not the law of the government, but I'm certain the law of your parents had something to do with it.
- squigz 2y agoThat's, uh, sort of my point here :)
- jvanderbot 2y agoKids will mostly do what they see others do. This makes drugs less difficult to dissuade. It makes phones and screens particularly pernicious. "do as I say, not as I do" is not always good enough. I have kids. They watch movies with us, and the nanny gives them more screen time than I'd like. I don't have to talk to them about drugs because nobody is handing my kids drugs. But screens are everywhere and I use them all the time, sadly.
- jimbokun 2y agoAnd yet...we don't recommend parents allowing their middle school children to try addictive drugs.
- htrp 2y agoMore like 10mn-20mn subjective years of AB testing (horizontally across the population/user pool)