QUOTE(Moulton @ Thu 29th April 2010, 6:42pm)
QUOTE(Malleus @ Thu 29th April 2010, 9:38pm)
"Peddling" implies some kind of benefit in return. Don't see it myself. It's just a power thing. I'm an admin you're not, so I'm in charge. Why wouldn't kids love that?
I would nominate Dopamine as the reward. Dopamine is the neuropeptide most commonly associated with instant gratification.
Not a peptide (as are, say, the encephalins-- the brain's morphine). Dopamine is just an amino acid derivative.
And there must be more to reward centers than dopamine, else Parkinson's drugs that increase dopamine in the brain (L-DOPA/carbidopa) would be addictive. Or at least pleasurable. So far as I can tell, they aren't. Much. Certainly the sympathomimetics (meth, coke, etc) are far more so.
QUOTE(Moulton @ Thu 29th April 2010, 6:33pm)
QUOTE(Malleus @ Thu 29th April 2010, 9:29pm)
The place is run by children and idiots who value "civility" above honesty.
So Sanger got it wrong? It's not adults peddling porn to children, but children peddling porn to adults?
Teenagers peddling porn to everybody. Wow, that's unique. (IMG:
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Not.