Even if it isn't "amazingly beneficial", who the fuck cares? Chewing bubblegum or playing a gameboy isn't "amazingly beneficial" but we still let kids do that. What he hell kind of standard is that?

Edit: Wew this thread went from bizarre to disturbing in record time. No parting rage-quit response for me? I feel left out...

A single self-reported datapoint is not a "source." Sounds like you don't know what you might have been missing and don't care to find out. Good for you, I guess?

Edit: parent's dead reply is an incredibly clear illustration of how such an isolated, unenriched childhood can impact social development. My kid's out playing in our neighborhood, thanks.

> Edit: parent's dead reply is an incredibly clear illustration of how such an isolated, unenriched childhood can impact social development. My kid's out playing in our neighborhood, thanks.

They went completely off the rails. Strange, it didn't look quite like the average cheap troll account either.

But I don't think the behavior should be taken as "an incredibly clear illustration" of anything. Just like their initial claim, it is an unverified anecdote at best, not data.

But the outburst might have been childhood trauma causing a bad reaction to the topic and discussion. I hope they're okay...

Agree to disagree, I was pretty careful to not describe that as an inevitable consequence or "data."

Somebody who flees a conversation imploring everybody to "kill yourself" after mild disagreement has all the appearance of a grievously immature person, raised on gamer culture, lashing out in greatly disproportionate response to a narcissistic injury. The person I've got sympathy for in this situation is the poster's "loving wife." I was once married to a narcissist, too.

> Agree to disagree, I was pretty careful to not describe that as an inevitable consequence or "data."

It just wasn't the "incredibly clear illustration" that you claimed. We know almost nothing about the person, and narcissism and probably other kinds of behavioral issues they may have displayed are probably not caused by playing video games or having an isolated, unenriched childhood.

Anecdote, much? I ran around with other kids in the neighborhood without direct adult supervision all the time as a child. I now make well north of your 250k USD with a loving wife and a house.

Neither story means anything in the general case.

If you had gotten out of the house more, you might have learned that we live in an incredibly diverse world, and not everyone needs to grow up exactly like you did.

Are you also evidence that everything else you haven't done isn't beneficial?