| ▲ | scotty79 7 hours ago |
| About as much as telling your kid to not drink beer while you are doing it yourself. |
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| ▲ | Gigachad 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Aside from the physical/chemical damage alcohol does to developing brains, alcohol addiction is bad for adults too. We just concede that after childhood you can make your own choice to ruin your life. Phone addiction is harmful to everyone at all age groups. It's not really the individuals to blame through. The tech companies have broken human psychology and developed something more addictive than drugs. |
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| ▲ | dizlexic 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Spoken like someone who hasn't really done drugs. | | |
| ▲ | airstrafer 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I get what you’re saying but phone addiction has absolutely ruined people’s lives. | |
| ▲ | jb1991 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Numerous studies have supported this thesis, that phone addiction is identical to a chemical addiction. | | |
| ▲ | lucumo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Which studies? The claim is usually made without specific citations. The few studies I'm aware of show correlation between mental health issues and phone use, but don't show which way the causation runs. It's just as plausible that mental health causes more phone use, yet these message boards always like to blame the phone for the mental health issues. | |
| ▲ | gyomu 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Can you share studies that show they’re “identical”? You’re not going to overdose from using your phone too much, or die from withdrawal if you suddenly stop using your phone, so that seems like a stretch. | |
| ▲ | acessoproibido 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 5% of all deaths worldwide can be attributed to alcohol. Phone addiction is not identical. In some aspects its similar but in most others not. | |
| ▲ | skybrian 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What’s an example of a study that you think is convincing? |
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| ▲ | mystifyingpoi 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The phrase "drink beer" could mean anything from 2 beers on a sunny weekend to 6-pack every night. They are not comparable. |
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| ▲ | bowsamic 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why would I tell my son not to drink beer? He can do so as soon as it’s relatively safe to |
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| ▲ | conductr 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | “Relatively safe to” is a very official sounding rubric. I guess tell him that and see if you agree on the timing of when that safety threshold has been met. Telling your kid to not drink beer is giving them the courage to say no to drinking beer. I personally don’t just bark out rules with no context. I also have discussions with my kid about why drinking beer can go awry. We all expect that they will, likely before we’d feel it’s relatively safe. So I want him to at least know what’s in store and how to not make compounding mistakes. | | |
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