[skhunted]

I believe the part of the brian that deals with impulse control isn’t fully developed until early 20s.

We don’t willingly and willfully let kids have access to alcohol and heroin. By your reasoning it seems like we should so that they can learn self control.

[reaperman]

I mean a lot of Europe has fairly low age limits for purchasing alcohol, and even lower for drinking it in private.

I believe 16-year olds can still buy wine and beer at the grocery stores in Denmark. I’ve heard it’s fairly common for 14-year olds to drink at home in the UK - though the 14-to-16 range may be delaying on average since ~2010.

I don’t believe many countries allow adults access to heroin. I believe prohibition does more harm here due to lack of quality control and testing but reasonable minds could disagree.

Age of first exposure is a fairly open question across the globe. Everyone is experimenting with whats best and whats tolerable.

[skhunted]

We agree then that limiting access to alcohol is appropriate at some age level. Different countries do it at different ages. What is optimal is society dependent.

I gather then that we are in agreement that limiting access to social media is appropriate at some age level. We perhaps disagree at what age that ought to occur.