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China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts
gimmebeer writes to tell us that months after a teen was beaten to death in an Internet boot camp, China has banned the use of physical punishment to help teens kick their net addiction. "The death of 15-year-old Deng Senshan, just hours after he checked into an Internet bootcamp in the southwestern Guangxi region in early August, caused a media storm in China. Days later, another teenager, Pu Liang, was taken to hospital with water in the lungs and kidney failure after a similar attack in Sichuan Province. The government in July had already banned electroshock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, after media reports about a controversial psychiatrist who administered electric currents to nearly 3,000 teenagers. The latest guidelines suggest officials in Beijing do not think that those with unhealthy Internet habits should be forced offline permanently."
Electroshock therapy for Internet addiction? Are you sure this isn't from The Onion?
You mean using onions to beat teens to break them of their shameful internet addictions? Interesting, I'll have to try that at my bootcamp.
Toddlers are not mentally stable and can't make their own rational decisions, which is exactly what he was referring to.
Some toddlers would pass for mentally stable, and some can make their own rational decisions.
Most toddlers make some irrational decisions, but almost everyone makes some irrational decisions. For example: type of food to eat, is often an irrational decision many people make based on arbitrary preference.
A toddler definitely knows if they want to walk about for a while to relieve some boredom.
Or beaten up, shot and/or murdered because you're gay. Or black. Or because the redneck over there just didn't like you.
Oh, wait, we were talking about China, sorry.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
Hmm... And here I was, thinking waterboarding was an american invention.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
> Nothing in corporate America is illigeal or immoral; until caught that is.
There, fixed that for you.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
I think you have misunderstand. Dating != sexual intercourse, which should be reserved for marriage in my opinion. There is more to life than physical gratification, by adding sex to dating, you will only complicate things further.
Although the lack of such knowledge is marveling, that is not even remotely important compares to say, how such culture is gender typing people.