habattack00
habattack00 t1_j9kzpww wrote
Reply to comment by AnacharsisIV in MTA urges social media companies to remove subway surfer videos after teen’s death by Grass8989
>Dumb ones who don’t understand that do us a favor and absolve society of the burden of taking care of them and fixing their stupid decisions by decapitating themselves before they do more harm. Seems like a win win.
Insane take. ‘Just kill off the dumb kids, am I right?’ Problem is that all kids are dumb. The right way of doing this is trying to keep them from subway surfing at all costs, not advertise it for some social ‘survival of the fittest’ bullshit.
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.