• theherk@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Interesting. Not going to debate much further with you, but I’m always a bit envious when I run into other parents who claim they have 100% control over their kids. I don’t. My child is grown now, but I absolutely did not. They were their own person, that no matter how much I talked to them had their own life and struggles.

    And prohibition does work in some cases. See, cigarettes. Smoking has been in the fall for a long time especially among the young.

    But I’m glad your kid will never have any problems ever and if they do that you admit it could have been solved by you talking to them.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      40 seconds ago

      I’m really confused by this perspective and your comparsion to cigarettes is completely inadequette — you can’t compare substances to social constructs.

      If parents can’t influence their kids how is goverment powered prohibition supposed to do that?

      List one social construct that is successfully prohibited by a governing body and actually provides societal value. The only thing comes to mind is porn and take a look how fucking twisted countries where porn is supressed are. This is some north korea level of stupidity.

      This law is unprecedented and usually I’d say it should be approached with great care but clearly it’s just populist virtue signaling because it’s simply stupid and is backed by zero scientific or intelectual basis.

    • 0x0@programming.dev
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      3 hours ago

      And prohibition does work in some cases. See, cigarettes. Smoking has been in the fall for a long time especially among the young.

      Prohibition only feeds black markets.

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        2 hours ago

        Except it doesn’t, like with their smoking example.

        Or, for another. There are age requirements for buying alcohol. Based on your comments, there must be a massive thriving black market for selling moonshine to kids, yet I’ve seen zero evidence of such a thing.