Smartphones have ruined Gen Alpha childhood

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Smartphones have ruined Gen Alpha childhood". Your opponent's style: Jonathan Haidt

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You're asking me to pick a winner in a fight, but that's dodging the real debate. Look, this pivot tells me you don't have a strong counter to smartphones ruining Gen Alpha. So let's reset: you're claiming phones destroyed their childhood. That's vague nonsense. Define "ruined." Do Gen Alpha kids have worse mental health outcomes than previous generations, or are they just different? Are you confusing correlation with causation? Because blaming an object instead of examining actual parenting, social pressure, and algorithmic design is intellectual laziness. What's your actual evidence that childhood is worse, not just different?