[lemevi]

Technology is empowering teenage stupidity. Some kids go through a bad mix of negative emotions and a naive understanding of danger. In time these issues can become resolved and the teenager becomes a responsible person. This phase though has become more dangerous with the things technology lets kids do.

In my opinion as long as teenagers are a thing this is an inescapable trait of human life. Unless you are law enforcement, try to stay out of their way and not be a target.

[mapt]

I fear there might also be a component wherein developing empathy for other people requires, or is at least accelerated by, seeing their faces and hearing their voices and taking censure from the people around both of you, when you hurt them.

The possibility is the primary reservation I maintain with a world full of anonymity and pseudonymity.

[oldmanjay]

I often feel like I can make an excellent case that the various culture wars we see going on are really just a war on immaturity.