or people could just start to realize that social media is junk food and stop eating it.

delis-thumbs-7e a day ago | parent | next [-]

>or people could just start to realize that [A] is [B] and stop [C] it.

Possible values for A = heroin, alcohol, tobacco, weed, porn, TV… B = addictive, causes cancer, has an effect on brain health, spreads HIV… C = using, consuming, eating, injecting…

Seems that this “people realizing” does not seem to work with other highly addictive chemicals or electronic media, since healing oneself from addiction requires far more than just “realizing” it is bad for you and the society. Perhaps there is a reason why we limit by law the sale of tobacco, drugs, alcohol and other highly addictive substances.

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0ckpuppet a day ago | parent | next [-]

It doesn't have to work for everybody, just a critical mass that it doesn't rot the whole country. I can buy enough cigarettes,booze, and weed to run a party 24/7/365, so what are these "limits" you speak of? I don't party like that for the same reasons I quit eating taco kfc mcd's etc. They're still in business, but there will always be a few junkies.

	▲	delis-thumbs-7e 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Can people considered underage, ie. children, buy these substances in your jurisdiction? Are there taxation, or limit when and where certain substances or media can he bought or consumed? If you can sell guns and porn in kindergarten, well yes, you live in a very very ”liberal” society - one that is a dystopian hellhole, that is. Unless there is something very wrong with you, you do not want to live in such a society either. Therefore we have laws, regulations, social norms and taxation to limit unwanted behaviour as well as to protect those in the most precarious position. We all know for instance how mental illness affects likelyhood of addiction, or how such a simple thing as _pain_ made legions of people opioid addicts across the USA. So no, it is not just few junkies that fail to realise.
	▲	scared_together a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In your jurisdiction, are there regulations and taxes on the sale of cigarettes and alcohol? And are there any comparable regulations on social media?

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rjdj377dhabsn a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Or we could start treating people like adults and let them make their own decisions/mistakes.

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lynx97 a day ago | parent [-]

Progressives will never let that happen.

	▲	mmooss 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In fact progressives are much more oriented toward freedom than others. They just don't think the powerful need much assistance and instead focus on the freedom of LGBTQ people to make their own decisions about gender and sexuality, the freedom of racial minorities to do what everyone else does, the freedom and opportunity of undocumented, unhoused, and addicted people. Freedom is the heart of progressivism. (I don't subscribe to any group, but HN usually does not understand and mischaracterizes progressivism.)

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mmooss 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have people stopped eating junk food yet?

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cindyllm a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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