Reply To: Do GPSs cause people to go OTD?

TKND: The point is that everything is a question of degree. You say the internet sent them off the derech. I say that if they were firmly rooted on the derech, the internet could not have sent them anywhere, therefore it is fallacious to blame it on the internet. GPS is the same thing. I know of a frum boy (true story, not mashal) who went to meet a non-frum girl that he met on the internet. He couldn’t have gotten there without a GPS. I imagine that you would say that it was the internet that sent him off, but not the GPS, and I don’t think it’s a valid distinction. Like a GPS, the internet makes things easier. If you are looking to do the wrong thing, as we (who have a yetzer hara) all are; then the internet can help you do that. If you learn, as we (who have yetzer tovs all do) to exercise self control and work on positive things, then the internet can make that far easier as well.