Yeah, it's wacky. Especially as there are a lot of mentorship programs that are all about giving kids older people to connect with if they don't have their own role models. Interacting with adults is good for kids, and helps them transition into adult society.
There's certainly things to be said about how adults shouldn't treat kids as contemporaries, ranging from sexualised stuff to leaning on them emotionally, but as usual the Internet takes this reasonable point of view and extends it to LITERALLY NEVER TALK TO A MINOR OR YOU ARE A PAEDOPHILE.
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Yeah, it's wacky. Especially as there are a lot of mentorship programs that are all about giving kids older people to connect with if they don't have their own role models. Interacting with adults is good for kids, and helps them transition into adult society.
There's certainly things to be said about how adults shouldn't treat kids as contemporaries, ranging from sexualised stuff to leaning on them emotionally, but as usual the Internet takes this reasonable point of view and extends it to LITERALLY NEVER TALK TO A MINOR OR YOU ARE A PAEDOPHILE.