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It’s your choice whether to install them or not. Let’s stop treating people like children please.

You mean like... all the actual... children who play these games? Should we stop treating those like children too?

Children have parents who know what their children are doing online. In any case, children don’t have access to credit cards or any other means to pay for in-game items.

There are plenty of children whose online behavior is oblivious to their parents, or they circumvent restrictions their parents placed.

That seems like a problem with those parents, not blizzard or the government.

It's like selling cigarettes to children using manipulative marketing specifically aimed at children like cute characters on the box and blaming the parents.

Every single statement in this post is a lie, its a bit of an achievement

1 - some children have no parents

2 - we have data to prove that parents don't know what their children do online, and never did. This is a complete fabrication

3 - children do have access to creditcards, both legally from the age of 14 or 16 depending on jurisdiction, and illegally

4 - there are many non-credit-card ways of paying for ingame items, including crypto

Anyway, given your views, I presume you are in favour of legalising cocaine and other drugs? Otherwise this whole line of argument would be hypocritical.

Yes of course I am.

“The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns.” – Susan Griffin

If this were true, people wouldn't literally die of addiction. Addicts aren't reasonable adults, addiction is a condition.

True, why have drug restrictions anyway... Or many other things. Let adults be adults and have whatever they want.

Yes, but then we should stop socializing the costs of their actions.

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