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by Aerroon 7 days ago
Any actual reasons or are we limiting them just because? Vibe based governance?

My parents were sure that sitting too close to a TV ruined your eyesight. Should we get a law that forces people to sit at least X meters from the TV? Personally I'd like to see some evidence first, instead of "but we must limit freedoms".

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It does ruin your eyesight, actually, just in a way that's easily correctable with corrective lenses now. But that wasn't always the case.
> Any actual reasons or are we limiting them just because?

Just because they aren’t ready to make informed decisions, yes. If they were ready, they’d be called adults.

> My parents were sure that sitting too close to a TV ruined your eyesight. Should we get a law that forces people to sit at least X meters from the TV?

It is children’s freedoms that ought to be restricted. Not their parents’. If you don’t understand the difference, that’s a problem.