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I think your comment would be well served by adding some reasons why.
Because youths don't have developed critical thinking skills and HRT is an invasive medical treatment!?
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#382> conservative Christians are trying to eliminate ALL sexually-related speech online I don’t really appreciate this framing. Despite being a very conservative Christian (at least in many ways, if not others) I don’t approve of or agree with the scope of SCOTUS’ current ruling, nor do I approve of all the age- verification laws as written. It seems futile to attempt to make everybody everywhere do this and create a lo…
normalization of what I view as degenerate sex acts
Those "degenerate sex acts" were normal enough when the Bible was written that they were included in the Bible.
Most of our ancestors would regard modern Americans as hideously prudish.
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In agreement, just to nitpick a single point:
> These people will never actually ban pornography, because they consume pornography.
Banning porn won't affect them: mainstream porn will find a way (dealing with rulings will just be a cost of business).
And more than anything, making it technically illegal allows for selective enforcement, which means a lot more power for them to decide who wins and who loses.
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think your comment would be well served by adding some reasons why.
Because youths don't have developed critical thinking skills and HRT is an invasive medical treatment!?
Zero kids are getting HRT without their parents consent, don’t spread transphobic FUD
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Anything you experience may push you in a direction with some magnitude, but we tend to overestimate the magnitude and mispredict the direction because we’re worried about the wellbeing of kids. Think “violent video games create school schootings.” In reality, kids have to deal with a lot of real things in life that are hard, an abusive parent or bullies at school, but those realities are harder to deal with so we di…
I'll offer the following speculation: Virtual reality simulates physical reality. In some cases, like violent video games, they assuage traumas. Whether it's a recording on a screen or not, can our brains tell the difference? Something is going on, spooky and subtle in the mind that makes whatever is on the screen meaningful to us. I don't want to get us trapped in this false interpretation that in the year 2025 ther…
Close: male but not middle aged
Our brains can’t tell the difference, but that’s not what I said. What I said is that it can be turned off. Social media cyberbullying comes along with entanglements that keep you on the site. For a shock video, I think the suburban dad has a point. To be clear, if someone came up to me and said they had really struggled with what they’d seen in a shock video as a kid and that it was really messing with them, I wouldn’t dismiss that or make fun of them or something. It’s just that the opposite has been my experience and the experience of those who I’m close to.