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"My first message would be, if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox. That sounds a little counter-intuitive, but I would always trust parents to make their own decisions," the company's director noted.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 day ago (16 children)

I dunno... That seems a like disingenuous to make a game specifically for kids and then take no responsibility for what children are exposed to on said game. I'm all for parents taking responsibility and believe that's a problem with many families today, but that just seems a shitty thing for him to say, IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I disagree I think this is the only answer. It’s the answer law makers should take as well. If parents did their job just because something is made specifically for kids doesn’t mean they are getting on it. There were a ton of things I wasn’t allowed to do as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

It's the children's parents' fault they keep falling into the pit. The government should take no responsibility as child after child disappears, never to be seen again. We could fill the hole, but that's parents job and there's an acceptable amount of poor people's children I'm willing to let vanish. It's only impacting poor people's children.

As someone who grew up poor with neglectful parents, it's people like you who would cheer on my death. People would say it would destroy my fathers incentive to provide for me if they helped me. Let me tell you, there's some people who just won't provide for their children. It's supply side Jesus applied exclusively to struggling children.

It is the parents fault, but children will suffer if we do nothing. Parents should tech kids not to get into strangers cars, but when they inevitably do we should still look for them.

How many poor kids is an acceptable sacrifice to you?

Maybe we should take down the orphan crushing machine even if it's not our job.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly the answer is to punish bad parents. Not all of society and reasonable families. There is no orphan crushing machine, it’s people who shouldn’t be parents not being educated in why they shouldn’t. And abortion being turned into something political instead of the best choice for 99% of pregnant persons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"You should have been aborted" is a wild take. It might be hard to imagine, but not all poor people want to abort their children.

Ignorant Americans speed running back into eugenics is wild to watch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

Terrible abusive parents shouldn’t be forced to have children they don’t want or need isn’t eugenics. Shitty people should know their options and we should celebrate abortion as a moral victory. So much less suffering in the world when unwanted children don’t have to suffer for 18 years.

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