Whether coercion produces measurable long-term psychological harm is irrelevant to its morality: we condemn coercing or hitting an adult as simply wrong, not because studies show downstream effects, so demanding evidence of harm before objecting to coercing children reflects the same mistaken view of children.
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“thinking about the effects is not the point that's an example of this different view that we have of children”
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