If you only have self-control because you have no outlet for boredom, you don’t have self-control.
My dad used to get bored and go out in the woods and stick firecrackers into frogs. A lot of people in his generation died doing stupid things because they were bored. They didn’t have phones, so they must have had self-control? Nah.
The kid won’t be better without the device. They’re not bad kids now. They’re reacting, really badly, to an awful situation. It just so happens (not a coincidence, though, they’re linked) that this particular technological innovation was at a similar time as all the shit above.
But the device makes it easier to lack self-control
If you only have self-control because you have no outlet for boredom, you don’t have self-control.
My dad used to get bored and go out in the woods and stick firecrackers into frogs. A lot of people in his generation died doing stupid things because they were bored. They didn’t have phones, so they must have had self-control? Nah.
The kid won’t be better without the device. They’re not bad kids now. They’re reacting, really badly, to an awful situation. It just so happens (not a coincidence, though, they’re linked) that this particular technological innovation was at a similar time as all the shit above.