Can someone please explain to me why we must weigh one against the other??
It seems like the only reason we are having this discussion is because some people have tried to discredit the original post by asking what a yeshiva bochur is doing online. Other than that, what is worse a stroke or a heart attack? BOTH CAN KILL!!
As for the comment “The potential for good use of the internet far outweighs the bad, in my opinion.”
Wow you are either totally naive about what is truly out there on the internet, or so blinded by your desire to prove a point that you would make such a statement. I cannot fathom anything worse in this world then the darkest depths of the internet. The internet has been used to abduct children for the purpose of (whatever) and other criminal and immoral activities! I see no way the good can outweigh stuff like that