Re: Humans do WHAT!

As I said:

What about adults who are conditioned, manipulated, trained, etc, to do what other people, institutions, governments want them to do?

This argument seems to be a condemnation of life itself. Yet again it assumes all child/adult sex is wrong by default.

I could also talk about the damage that was done to me in school by being conditioned and brainwashed to conform to a selfish, greedy society, and being manipulated to believe in false things, or even do things I didn't want to do. Or getting yelled at. Made fun of and bullied, even by teachers. So many to list. I'd bet a lot that all this stuff did a lot more harm to me than if an adult were to have touched my penis.

I think we can agree that very young children are distinctly different from adults and adolescents and at this particular age it seems to show (to me at least) how they can be so easily affected by how they perceive people (I knew her about a week). As children grow older they will of course question what they are asked and gain greater independence. I can't see the relevance of the last passage - life is not exactly perfect or fair. I can recall being admonished for things I never did and being punished for the things I did do but they didn't leave a lasting impression.