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Giving a child a smartphone is coming from a place of tremendous privilege. Phone plans aren’t cheap, phones aren’t cheap (at least phones that are usable aren’t). It’s baffling to me that you solved your problem by giving your child an incredibly addicting device that most child development experts compare to hard drugs.


Are you seriously trying to suggest that it's equivalently risky giving a 10 year old a phone or heroin?


Heroin no, but something like amphetamine/Adderall actually seems like a reasonable comparison to me.


Is this a real question? Do you have difficulty understanding metaphors?


I don't. Which is why I asked. If you mean something else, perhaps you could be so kind as to say it.


You do appear to have difficulty as you took what I said in metaphor and applied it literally. that's not how metaphors work.


You literally did not use a metaphor. You claimed that other people were making comparisons. But a metaphor is just one kind of comparative tool.


You continue to obstinately be overly semantic instead accepting that not everything is perfectly literal.


I understand not everything is perfectly literal. However, your literal point is bad and foolish, and if you were making a different one, it's still not clear what it is. So I'm just going to collapse this discussion believing that you didn't really have a point, and were just running your mouth with some hyperbole you coulnd't in the end justify.




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