Besides all the reasons other commenters have said, it’s because mental health is a pseudo-social phenomenon among teens.

Having a mental illness gets them attention, online and in person. I have two teens, and even though both have diagnosed mental illness due to trauma from their other parent, they still seek, discuss, and revel in self-diagnoses.

If a friend claims to have something, they rush to the internet to do “research,” and begin exhibiting “symptoms.” Same thing is true with other labels.

We have a dearth of parenting, due to needing two incomes to make a household run. Adult attention is scarce, so teens make up for it with wild claims and garnering attention from other teens. The internet makes it easy to model behaviors. So yes, there is an increase in mental illness, but not the kinds, nor for the reasons the internet would have us believe.

My brother and I used to play a game called Splatterhouse on Turbografx-16. It was humorously horrifying, given the highly pixellated gore on screen.

Maybe you can copyright the prompt itself. But not the output.

But there is nothing about the person themselves that affects the outcome of the prompt.

You probably actually wouldn’t when it’s 5 times more expensive.

You do know it’s not an either- or situation, right? You can be both.

Somebody needs to read Momo.

I see you’re an optimist.

Apparently more than you do.

Then you don’t know much about religion.

And nothing heinous has ever been done without religion?

The faithful give over three times as much in charitable donations as the secular, and volunteer three to four times as often.

Plus, the religious have been persecuted for their beliefs as long as there had been human history, which is what you are proposing by suggesting that religion should be eliminated.

This is a great stance to take until the government forces you to regularly go through a life-threatening procedure to harvest your bone marrow so another person might live.

Even if it’s life, no life is allowed to commandeer another person’s body to survive. Period.

That’s not religion. That’s abusers using religion to control people. Which unfortunately the most vocal make sound like that’s all religion.

Two thoughts: this is mind-blowing AND there’s no possible way this could go wrong, right? Right?!?

I agree with school, just disagree with local community voting. They don’t own or rent homes, and therefore have near-zero consequence for the outcome.

I mean… that’s basically how it is now, excluding drinking. I’d rather they learn to vote before legally drinking.

Maybe it depends on where you live. Currently, our local politics is poorly attended. I shudder to think of the average local teen making community decisions. Among other things, we would end up with no police and my community is already stained for police presence (though some would consider that an advantage, I live too close to a high school to be comfy with that.) I’m guessing in more affluent areas, that might not be a big of a risk, but it definitely is here. Most teens here don’t traditionally work anyways.

Voting within their school, sure. But not at the community level.

Driving a car carries immediate physical consequences, something much easier to grasp than abstract consequences.

We don’t dump everything on them at once, because each step of adulthood and personal responsibility is hard.

That’s not how learning works. A graduated system allows people to gradually take on responsibility. Going from a total child to full adult is too much of a shock. It’s bad enough as is, with kids having a hard time “adulting.”