There are loads of idiots out there that just don’t care that their five year old watches porn
Yeah but we’re not making knifes plastic because some little Darwin Award winner might trip and fall playing with it when their parents are not doing their duties.
Louis Rossman talked against the idea that people are dying because they can easily cancel their security subscriptions. Here’s a little transcript. It’s a little off topic but I find that it works in this case because you can subsitute this for covid lockdowns or even the topic of children getting a hold of gross content like porn or violent content.
now one of the things that bothered me back in 2020 and one of the things I talked about with Andrew Kuomo is when he said something that I found to be demagoguic in nature when he said “If it saves even one life right?” And the reason that that bothered me is not because I don’t care about saving human life it’s not because I am not willing to go out of my way and do everything humanly possible to help all those around me it’s because that standard ignores all negative externalities
In the vain, I might sound like an asshole but i’m not willing to protect 1 child in a way that will make the internet worse for millions of people.
Spoiler'd: consider this your cw/tw. I don't want to trigger people and if you're squirmish might be best to avoid.
> kids watching porn vs kids watching ultra violent movies or even real violence online i’ve had access to porn since i was 8. My friend used to send me isis beheading videos over skype. Used to lurk on /b/ for rekt (basically “watch people die”) & porn threads. used to play violent vidia (gta/postal/cod/shooters generally etc) at the time too. I’ve seen all of the above and I turned out fine, i guess. I’d say i’ve experienced more trauma with my love life and relationships with the backstabbing/games/gas lighting/taking advantage and calling it love. I think that fucked me up more than any content on the internet ever did. Heck, i don’t even rememeber my worst relationship because my just brain blocks it out. or maybe there’s just something wrong with me that even I don’t know about as a result of what I saw as a kid. i mean, I honestly don’t know. i wonder if this makes me an interesting resesrch specimen tho lmao please keep in mind that this is just my experience and doesn’t make for a good argument for or against legislation of the internet.
HotCoffee@lemm.ee 3 days ago
True but if we take bad parenting as a design point then we might as well ban 80% of all things in the world. Forks, knives, power outlets, glue, sharp furniture corners… Baths, what if your kid drowns cus of bad parenting.