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Red Spy:

--- Quote from: TristanLuigi on December 14, 2017, 06:48:05 PM ---it would be like giving students detentions because they played more than 2 hours of video games last night

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oh cmon man that's disingenuous and you know it
TristanLuigi:

--- Quote from: Red Spy on December 14, 2017, 06:56:53 PM ---oh cmon man that's disingenuous and you know it

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is it, though?
both are harmless actions that someone takes in their free time.
Red Spy:
i'm not sold on the idea that doing drugs as a 17 year old is harmless
Grimlock²:
what kind of drug test did you fail
TristanLuigi:

--- Quote from: Red Spy on December 14, 2017, 06:59:04 PM ---i'm not sold on the idea that doing drugs as a 17 year old is harmless

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okay, it's harmless to others
and spending hours every day in a chair playing video games probably isn't harmless to the player, either
we don't punish people for eating junk food

or what about self-harm or cutting? that's definitely harmful to the person doing it, but instead of punishing it, we try to help the person overcome the underlying problem
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