alt Hacker NewsWhat's very obviously unnecessary is the need for a law to police this. You can just not use things you don't like. This need to project one's own morality upon others will be the source of endless conflict.
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This isn't useful advice for addictive things that have high short term reward and high long term regret though. Especially so when the other party has a strong incentive to keep you trapped in that loop of regret.
That statement leans very hard on the word “like”. Do addicts “like” their addictive behaviors? In a way it doesn’t matter, they’re going to keep doing it anyway.
We can decide to pass laws to protect people from addictive behaviors. Do you support bringing cigarette advertising back for example?
The law being discussed is for minors. As a society we don't think minors have sufficient executive function to make those decisions, so we find it acceptable to ban them in those context.
> You can just not use things you don't like.
The entire point of talking about addiction (or even harmless things like FOMO, network effect, etc) is that this is not true.
Absolutely. While we're at it, why should asbestos be regulated? You can just not go in buildings that have it.