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Not all people have YOUR privilege of having friends, platonic or otherwise. What you trying to steal from my childhood, is a better future for someone you don’t know.

Are you advocating for replacing social interactions with internet porn due to rural conditions? Basically all of human history has had a very limited number of people they can interact with, and that only changed very recently.

My emotions were stunted by living in rural isolation

Research has shown that not socializing during development harms their emotional and social growth. There are people there you could have socialized with, but you didn’t have to because the internet provided an escape.

I explained my circumstances, and you ignored them. You have demonstrated why conservative values are evil

I am not conservative. I am not religious. I am literally only talking about research, which is neither a religious not conservative thing to do. Even if someone had anecdotal experience as to why alcohol helped them get through their childhood, that does not mean we should allow children to have alcohol. Likewise, it does not matter if it benefited you (which I am skeptical of to begin with) if research shows it to be harmful to kids and teens.

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SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You ignored my life experience. Again. I had no access to people beyond my own family. No friends, let alone people to have sex with. You would have to walk many miles to find other people, most of whom were at least three decades older than me. Plus, my parents DIDN’T have friends nor social lives.

I don’t give a damn about your “research”, because it is clearly intended to ruin the lives of people. People discover their sexuality through media and other humans, the former often allowing them to identify what kinds of folks are compatible with them. It could be the camaraderie of furries, perhaps girls liking girls and finding their partner. The key thing, is that in our formative years, our sexuality is either discovered or destroyed. Your position exists to stifle the humanity each of us have.

You are welcome to ignore your own sexuality. All I ask is for you to not repress children from figuring out what makes them happy, because that dictates whether they possess a guiding light for the rest of their lives.

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- Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  I don’t give a damn about your “research”, because it is clearly intended to ruin the lives of people.
  
  I don’t think you understand how research works.
  
  No friends, let alone people to have sex with. You would have to walk many miles to find other people, most of whom were at least three decades older than me. Plus, my parents DIDN’T have friends nor social lives.
  
  You didn’t go to school? You didn’t interact with people your age? Could your lack of friends not be partially caused by your dependency on the internet
  
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  - SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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    Look. Some people DON’T have access to school. Just because there are phone lines, doesn’t mean there are cultural centers, especially for children. This world is made by adults, to serve the interests of adults. The young are inherently dependent on their elders to provide all things, including community. My parents didn’t. Simple as that.
    
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