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> To be honest, the alternative for a good chunk of these users is no interaction at all, and that sort of isolation doesn't prepare you for human interaction e
by koolba 11mo ago
> To be honest, the alternative for a good chunk of these users is no interaction at all, and that sort of isolation doesn't prepare you for human interaction either.
This sounds like an argument in favor of safe injection sites for heroin users.
- jacquesm 11mo agoGiven that those tend to have positive effects for the societies that practice this is that what you wanted to say?
- batiudrami 11mo agoHey hey safe injecting rooms have real harm minimisation impacts. Not convinced you can say the same for chatbot boyfriends.
- komali2 11mo agoThat's exactly right, and that's fine. Our society is unwilling to take the steps necessary to end the root cause of drug abuse epidemics (privatization of healthcare industry, lack of social safety net, war on drugs), so localities have to do harm reduction in immediately actionable ways. So too is our society unable to do what's necessary to reduce the startling alienation happening (halt suburban hyperspread, reduce working hours to give more leisure time, give workers ownership of the means of production so as to eliminate alienation from labor), so, ai girlfriends and boyfriends for the lonely NEETs. Bonus, maybe it'll reduce school shootings.
- ptsneves 11mo agoSeeing society as responsible for drug abuse issues, of their many varieties, is very Rousseau.
- komali2 11mo agoRousseau and Hobbes were just two dudes. I'd wager neither of them cracked the code entirely. To claim that addicts have no responsibility for their addiction is as absurd as the idea that individual humans can be fully identified separate from the society that raised them or that they live in.
- psunavy03 11mo agoAnd there we are . . . "Our society is unable to do what's necessary on issue X, and what's necessary is this laundry list of my unrelated political hobby horses."
- komali2 11mo agoIf you don't deny that the USA is plagued by a drug addiction crisis, what's your solution?
- alsetmusic 10mo agoThe person who introduced the topic did so derisively. I think you ought to re-read the comment to which you replied and a few of those leading to it for context.