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"Everyone" also more or less blindly accepts the gradual stripping away of their liberty, the irresponsible destruction of the environment, and the nutritional content of fast food. Oddly enough it takes people unwilling to accept the status quo for anything to change.

Imagine that.

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The things you list there are obviously bad (assuming that by the last you refer to overconsumption of it), but I don't think it is equally obvious that teenagers having cellphones at school is a bad thing just because it's a recent development.

cellphones at school is a bad thing when kids use it to only to text friends that are in the same space (the school), not talking in person and arrange commitments, and abundance of texting ends in empty talks when facing someone, losing sence of important social "skills" needed for life: and that's an important role of schools

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