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Sounds like something out of Nazi Germany. I'm all for people engaging with the community, but enforced?

Strongly encouraged, then? I mean I do believe social education should be part of one's upbringing - it's not going to happen for a lot of people otherwise.

Strongly encouraged is a lot better.

"dude F that S*, I'm staying home, rolling a bunch of fat ones, and grinding on my level 80 Warlock, then logging on to grind up my PathOfExile smurf" (repeat loop for next 40 years) -- lots of people who are no way voluntarily going to break their comfortable cocoon created by addictive gaming & drugs.

Well then that's their choice and they will have to live and die with the consequences.

You could say that for offenders and people who are arrested for crimes/drugs fall into prison system — we have systems in place to reintegrate them back into society —- but the phenomenon of how humans can buy groceries for 2 months, stay inside and entertain themselves , you can’t ‘discipline’ that and schedule those people for parole or counseling —- we’re gonna have a big problem in 10-20 years when more and more people stay inside and have less meaningful relationships

If they haven't done anything to hurt anyone else, that's their right. It's part of being free, that you're free to hurt yourself.

I've been together with my wife for 18 years, married for 14 and I met her playing the original Everquest.

Such cases are extreme outliers.

This is unnecessarily dismissive. Since online interactions are more common over time, we would expect marriages (or anything else, really) resulting from online interactions to also become more common over time.

They might be but it's possible that the percentage of such interactions that result in a marriage won't offset the lost potential marriages that came from more "classical" forms of interaction. And when I say "lost" I mean when people start focusing more and more on online dating having expectations other than meaningful relationships/marriage.

The question isn't if online interactions can produce meaningful relationships but rather what is the expectation of people that do it this way. Because if the expectation is that online dating is just for one night stands and "fun" then the increase in such interactions won't bring an equivalent increase in marriages.

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