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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Climate change and internet safety are definitely good points to worry about. Climate change is a natural thing - the continents sit on tectonic plates that move about, mountains form, sea levels go up and down and some places are hotter or colder than they used to be. But it is still important to prepare for climate change, because the consequences can be devastating for certain populations. But it’s not just climate change that we have to be worry about. There is a lot of rubbish and industrial waste in the oceans that need to be cleared up. There’s no harm in switching to cleaner forms of energy, such as solar, geothermal and nuclear energies. And finally, overpopulation. Some countries are overpopulated and need to reduce their birth rates. On internet safety, there should be efforts to warn people about the dangers of the internet.

You make a point that some adults abuse the fact that minors are powerless. That’s why most countries have laws on child labour, child abuse, kidnapping, age of consent and so on. Unfortunately, these laws are of no use to children and teenagers who are unaware that they exist, or who live in societies where no such laws exist. And even if the minor knows he has protections in a society that has them, he is trapped if he doesn’t know who to go to. What if the police or social workers in his area don’t care? Or what if his abusers have gaslit him into thinking nobody cares about him? It’s not an easy issue to solve, but having laws, mechanisms and tightly-knit high trust communities help to minimise incidents of child abuse.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You make a point that some adults abuse the fact that minors are powerless. That’s why most countries have laws on child labour, child abuse, kidnapping, age of consent and so on. Unfortunately, these laws are of no use to children and teenagers who are unaware that they exist, or who live in societies where no such laws exist...

Totally agree. I think that societies ought to acknowledge both this point, and the fact that children do not have the developed brains and experience enough to make well-informed political decisions.