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Not everyone who smokes cigarettes gets cancer.

If you take young minds which are stressed and unfulfilled, and give them a device which provides short dopamine bursts at the expense of finding actual fulfillment, you get depression.




If you drink extreme, excessive amounts of water, you die of water poisoning though water is essential for life.

Too much of anything can be bad for you.

Edit: Let me add:

If you take young minds which are stressed and unfulfilled, and (do anything other than fix the problems causing their stress and lack of fulfillment), you get depression.


Should we let preteens buy and drink alcohol at school, under the logic that for some of them, the fun/socializing benefits will outweigh the downsides? While this would be funny for a while, I don't think its a good idea.


No and I cannot for the life of me see where this question grows logically out of things I've said.


To be fair, you did respond to a comment about smoking cigarettes by saying that water can also be bad. I've never actually heard anyone compare the two before. This whole thread is becoming nonsensical.


I was responding to this:

If you take young minds which are stressed and unfulfilled, and give them a device which provides short dopamine bursts at the expense of finding actual fulfillment, you get depression.

If there is a non sequitur, it's you randomly bringing up cigarettes and cancer.




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