You probably joking, but that actually a thing in China and was a thing in USSR
Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Make babies! It’s illegal to be lonely!
DeLancre@piefed.social 5 days ago
Trev625@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
It says that it was proposed… We propose a lot of bills that never pass here in the US. I’m not sure how China’s laws are setup but Wikipedia doesn’t say that it was ever implemented.
morto@piefed.social 4 days ago
6% of income? Still much cheaper than a kid!
SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Is that your take on the matter? How is wanting yo promote real human relationships between teenagers a bad thing?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
This is like trying to solve mental illness by making the sickness illegal.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 4 days ago
I’d say that’s more like trying to solve mental illness by making it illegal to exploit and profit from it
tal@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ˈɛr.ɛ.hwɒn/, ERR-eh-hwon)[2] is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]
In Erewhon, illness is crime and crime is illness. As a result, citizens are imprisoned for offenses like physical ailments, misfortune, or ugliness while those who commit conventional crimes like fraud or theft are seen more sympathetically as exhibiting symptoms of moral afflictions and prescribed sessions with a “straightener” (essentially a psychologist) for treatment.[5]
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 days ago
That is suspiciously close to “Nowhere” spelled backward.
SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
So I guess you’re pretty fine with the pedo/misogynist/nazi/bullying shit happening the Discord servers.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
“You hate hotdogs? YOU MUST LOVE BURGERS THEN”
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 days ago
What do Discord servers have to do with anything??
Laser@feddit.org 5 days ago
I’m pretty sure AI partners are not the primary reason people don’t have human partners. The issues are systematic and root very deeply. While I do think AI partners are a very toxic and dangerous way out of this, I highly doubt they were the reason people were single in the first place.
SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I’m pretty sure alcohool is not the primary reason people don’t drive responsibly. The issues are systematic and root very deeply. While I do think driving while drunk is a very toxic and dangerous way out of this, I highly doubt they were the reason people were caught ebrious in the first place.
sukhmel@programming.dev 4 days ago
You’re joking, but people drive under influence not because alcohol exists, but because they have issues with self-control and responsibility.
So you do prove a point while trying to oppose it, imo
OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 days ago
And wasn’t China very recently concerned about their birthrate being too high? One Child Policy?
Now they’re already concerned about their birth rate being too low?
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 days ago
The one-child policy was abolished in 2015, but birth rates have continued to decline after that. They currently have one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 days ago
It’s crazy, like overpopulation, stress, and pollution mean people don’t want kids or something.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
They were wrong, and they know it, but also you’re not allowed to say that.