Logic and evidence alone aren't enough either! Normative beliefs are founded on feelings, (they have to be!) and how someone feels about something depends on their consideration, their perspectives, and their objectivity.
That's just how humans work. No ampunt of thinking about logic and evidence will ever produce an ounce of sympathy from a human until you start engaging with them from the right perspective.
Take me for example. It doesn't matter how many papers you show me proving that children are capable of consent, that children are capable of romantic feelings, that children are capable of sexual pleasure, or even that rejecting a child's advances causes them more distress than just having a romantic or sexual relationship with them does.
Not because I am incapable of reading or acknowledging them, not because I wouldn't believe what they said, and not because I'm incapable of understanding basic or even advanced logic or reasoning, but because I just don't actually believe any of that is relevant to whether adults and children should have romantic or sexual relationships.
And similarly, I doubt YOU would change your mind no matter how many studies I gave you arguing that children are less reliable parents or that adults who date children are all old and used up. Am I wrong? Or have I understood you correctly?
The fact is that between us there is an important piece of perspective that hasn't been shared and considered and which is the TRUE source of our disagreement.
Scoundrel
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