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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Sarah Fitz-Claridge

Evidence Quote

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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Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously | The Lunar Society #15Dwarkesh Patel
Created: 6/13/2026, 7:01:20 PM

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