[IncRnd]

There should be those sorts of houses everywhere, or the feral children would roam in street gangs, steal pies from window sills, and ring doorbells.

[sterlind]

the way the world economy's going I could see Oliver Twist becoming relevant again.

[robertlagrant]

Please sir - can I have some more...screen time?

[skeezyboy]

no go and play with your friends... oh yeah thats right they live miles away and the only way to get hold of them is via a screen but because of hysterical adults (who decry the ills of social media from social media) theyve banned me from using it because it will do general detriment to me much like TV was feared to cause, much like books were feared to cause. This time is no different, hysterical parents

[robertlagrant]

> This time is no different, hysterical parents

How do you know this?

[skeezyboy]

because it it were so toxic to health the parents themselves would stop using them

[robertlagrant]

This seems to forget the difference between adults will fully-developed brains, and children who are still forming. I hope you'd agree with the principle through this analogy: an adult who looks at pornography would not want to show their child pornography.

[darkwater]

Well, maybe it actually didn't work out so well because in a society where information can travel so fast, we have more and more people thinking hoaxes are real because they've been trained to do it... I'm not saying there is a conspiracy behind this, just that maybe we are ignoring the bad outcomes and mark them as "bah, it's normal, we always behaved like this"