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Re:The French village that voted to ban scrolling in public by JadeNB on Saturday February 10, 2024 @01:01PM (#39328537)
> If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve.

I'm wholly in sympathy with the idea that public life would be better if we spent less of it on our phone, but counting every good deed left undone as a harm done is a very dangerous road to go down.

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Re:The French village that voted to ban scrolling in public by berkes on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @10:59AM (#39358863)
Fair point.

I wasn't seeing it as a "good deed left undone" but as a normalized state that has been unbalanced by phones and individualism. That the norm is a place where humans talk, collaborate, and have deep connections in small social groups. The way humans have lived for millions of years.

I guess looking at it from a more practical perspective of individualism being the norm from which we should break through good deeds, is a far more effective and realistic way. Thanks.

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