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habattack00 t1_j9l3ym2 wrote

Reply to comment by AnacharsisIV in MTA urges social media companies to remove subway surfer videos after teen’s death by Grass8989

Except kids don’t willingly get killed out of their own volition. They do it because they think it’s fun and don’t understand the risks they’re taking. Same with eating tide pods because they saw it online, same with wanting McDonald’s each and every day because it tastes good, same with trying out heroin because their friends are trying it.

And before you say ‘well that’s why we show them videos of other kids getting decapitated so that they know what could happen’, evidence doesn’t mean shit. Kids in NYC see cracked up homeless on the streets every day, and that doesn’t keep them from trying out crack out of curiosity when their friends offers it. Hell, most adults have seen images of crippled lungs after years of smoking, but people still smoke. The fact of the matter is that even when presented when evidence of objectively bad decisions, people will still do them.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_j9lcqbl wrote

>The fact of the matter is that even when presented when evidence of objectively bad decisions, people will still do them.

Yup.

The NYT story from yesterday is a perfect example of this.

The story details how a kid went to a memorial for a friend who died subway surfing, yet he continues to subway surf himself.

If his own buddy dying didn't deter him from subway surfing for internet clout, no amount of fear-mongering PSAs will do it, either.

I have no clue what the solution is, though getting these videos banned is a start.

It is crazy to me that the MTA didn't get this done a long time ago, given the one video last June of the kids doing it on the J-Train went really viral.

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AnacharsisIV t1_j9l6dg5 wrote

> Hell, most adults have seen images of crippled lungs after years of smoking, but people still smoke.

Is that a really good argument when the rate of Americans who smoke has dropped so precipitously in living memory? I don't have the numbers on hand but I wouldn't be surprised if the same applies to crack cocaine. Or just any kind of cocaine, really; that's not a drug I think most kids are trying nor would be able to afford.

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