Why isn't it a solution? Before you answer, remember that "putting criminals in prison instead of letting them go free" was considered "not a solution" for decades in El Salvador, until someone just, you know, DID IT, and reduced crime rates by over 95% and increased their happiness index from one of the least to one of the most happy populaces on Earth.
So why isn't parental responsibility a solution? Is it "too hard"? Harder than rounding up nearly 100,000 machine-gun-armed violent psychpaths in one year who actively kill as many as they can going down? Is it not a solution because it might require the faintest, the mildest, the tiniest of efforts or even, dare I say, incentives?
Social and fiscal incentives work. Indoctrination works. Propaganda works. They are almost always used for nefarious means, but ultimately, they are tools.
Beyond this, heavy-handed government-side rules can exist to drive population opinion. In example, to reduce vaping in youth, many places have banned child-advertising of the products, including things like child-friendly flavor advertisements [many states cannot advertise "liquid candy!" as a vaping product]. You could make it illegal to advertise anything "child oriented" on social media, from facebook games to Elsagate-style schlock, show no kids using Instagram, restrict TikTok ads on TV to late night timeslots and internet ads for it only on age-restricted websites (banish it to the same rules as pornography ads, basically). With no financial backing, no profit to be made in wasting large amounts of bandwidth dollars, thus the market will contract, GDP will reduce (oh well), and the consumers will consume less.
It's simple enough, really. It's just work. And will have a whole bunch of "influencers" complaining and smearing you for restricting their access to your children.
Why isn't it a solution? Before you answer, remember that "putting criminals in prison instead of letting them go free" was considered "not a solution" for decades in El Salvador, until someone just, you know, DID IT, and reduced crime rates by over 95% and increased their happiness index from one of the least to one of the most happy populaces on Earth.
So why isn't parental responsibility a solution? Is it "too hard"? Harder than rounding up nearly 100,000 machine-gun-armed violent psychpaths in one year who actively kill as many as they can going down? Is it not a solution because it might require the faintest, the mildest, the tiniest of efforts or even, dare I say, incentives?
It's not a solution because, obviously, it's spontaneous individual action... while changes in populations at large are always deterministic.
If you have a plan to influence the population of parents at large, spit it out. I'm all ears.
Social and fiscal incentives work. Indoctrination works. Propaganda works. They are almost always used for nefarious means, but ultimately, they are tools.
Beyond this, heavy-handed government-side rules can exist to drive population opinion. In example, to reduce vaping in youth, many places have banned child-advertising of the products, including things like child-friendly flavor advertisements [many states cannot advertise "liquid candy!" as a vaping product]. You could make it illegal to advertise anything "child oriented" on social media, from facebook games to Elsagate-style schlock, show no kids using Instagram, restrict TikTok ads on TV to late night timeslots and internet ads for it only on age-restricted websites (banish it to the same rules as pornography ads, basically). With no financial backing, no profit to be made in wasting large amounts of bandwidth dollars, thus the market will contract, GDP will reduce (oh well), and the consumers will consume less.
It's simple enough, really. It's just work. And will have a whole bunch of "influencers" complaining and smearing you for restricting their access to your children.