I hate that I'm starting to really see anti-cs points and am starting to think incentivzing adults not to fuck children through social and legal consequences is a good thing, I don't want it to be but I'm worried it might be a good thing... could I have been wrong all this time, yes I could have been...I may have been totally wrong, there was a time 5 years ago where I felt certain that freedom and human rights were the ultimate good and that people were mostly good and everything would sort itself out but even though I still think people are mostly good still (though I've gone back and fourth on that but it didn't effect my stance on freedom) I worry that the natural friction which always occurs between all humans no matter how good they are because nobody's perfect, would result in uneven harm, the child would be more harmed than the adult due to the adult having an unfair advantage in arguments, I'm not even touching physical abuse because that's against the rules of society, we talk, we don't hit, and so I'm just focusing on the best case scenario, where an adult who means no harm and only intends to be a teacher enters into a consensual romantic relationship with them...even then, due to the natural friction of human lovers, hurt feelings will occur, and the childs feelings will be more vulnerable, more sensative, than the adults, they are not on the same playing field. Now, I still do theorize that there would be healthy fringe cases, instances where both the adult and the child share the same level of developmental disability while still being able to understand and follow the rules of social interaction for loving friends, or cases where the adult and child exist in a culture that is sex positive and so there would be no social consequences for the child and adult engaging in mating behaviors, or play-mating behaviors, because these would not be something that would culturally imply a special relationship, it would be no more damaging or contain any more emotional friction than an adult and a child who happily, consensually, and eagerly hug in a platonic fashion in our current society.