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Comment Meritless "Protect The Children" Drivel Again (Score 1) 74

Something cannot be addictive, that does not enter your body.

Your own body produces the chemicals, and you have the ability to self-regulate your own chemicals. An outside source of inspiration/ hate/ etc cannot regulate your own chemicals for you. You are responsible for your own decisions, and that includes the self-regulation or parental-regulation of things you interact with, which do not have aspects which enter your body. It is not scientifically possible for something to be addictive which does not enter your body; a so-called addiction to something like this, would be diagnostic in determining something wrong with your own abilities independent of the thing, not with the thing.

It is the same "video games cause gun violence" argument all over again. It CANNOT cause addiction. It does not ENTER you. In the situation of photosensitivity to flashing causing seizures, that is a flaw of the consumer interacting with it, not a flaw of the media displaying the flashes.

Comment This is the actual main reason (Score 1) 152

This is the actual main reason I don't go to the movies anymore; it's not because there aren't movies I want to see, or because of the ticket prices -- it is because I am force-fed around a half hour solid of ads, which largely have zero relevance to me whatsoever. I am literally paying to see ads, by going there.

Comment Missing Categories (Score 1) 137

There needs to be other categories than just these two.. For example, I use it for creativity purposes, such as to come up with a silly story to read for fun. This use doesn't fall into either of those categories; it doesn't require relying on untrustworthy reasoning for a solution -- it's just a silly story to read, akin to Asimov's "Someday" story bot.

Comment Easiest Appeal Ever (Score 1) 54

It is impossible to prove social media is addictive, without first ruling out that a person had a pre-existing failure to self-inhibit dangerous practices, which social media is not responsible for regulating. If this is not ruled out first, you're blaming the gun for shooting, rather than the shooter for pulling the trigger.

Comment Re:Dumb precedent. Addiction is on the user. (Score 0) 113

Society is not the governor of science. To become addicted, a chemical from outside of you must enter you, that causes the addiction. No chemical enters you via social media. You already have all of the chemicals, and your own actions cause the release of them. A society cannot officiate whether that is true.

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