Banning Child Addiction
March 19th, 2009I should mention I´m backpacking in South America with limited email access, so posting will be light. Interestingly, Germány is considering a blanket age restriction on ¨addictive¨games to minors. Obviously, this policy is stupid on its face, not least because addictiveness is difficult to define. That said, what struck me about it was how the cure doesn´t actually solve the problem.
Why exactly are children less capable of managing addiction than adults? If you shoot heroin, does it have less of a pull on you if you´re over 18? Bizarre. It seems like some people just like to think that doing ¨something¨ is good politics.
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