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I'm the person who made the opening post, lol . There were actually 2 questions, complete with ? at the end of them. Since you have responded to me, I've decided I'll just copy and paste them here:
**1- Do people here agree with the type of broad sexual education that is now being provided in Ontario?
2- How and when should adults and minors interact with each other outside of the teacher/student and parent/child relationship?**
And no, it's definitely not a crime to ask, lol . Another thing, I've thrown my support behind Jill Stein too- I was for Bernie, but Bernie's no longer a candidate and I just can't support Hillary. Trump would be worse, but even at the risk of ushering in the Trumpocalypse, I still can't support Hillary as someone to vote for -.-
Maybe girl scouts, mentoring, church. I can't see adults and children having much in common unless family relations or a community level.
I agree that it should be in a community of some sort. How about an online community, like this one? It already happens ofcourse. If you look earlier in this thread, you'll see there was a heated discussion between me and a ChrisL as to whether it's ok to for adults and minors to speak outside of the public places in this forum (in PMs, for instance). I strongly believe that it should be fine, at least if the minor initiates it, she strongly disagreed. As to taking it -beyond- the online realm, that's a completely different ballgame. I think things are fairly simple so long as things are kept online.
Do you think a 50 yr old has much in common with say an 8 yr old to talk in private online?
8, no, but if you raised that up to, say, 14, and the man and the teen both liked, say, anime, then yes, I think that could form the beginning of a private conversation.
What if the 8yr old liked anime or pokeman or neopets or sims and the man was 50 and liked those things too should he message privately? Why not just talk about it in public why "private" is there some reason those topics would need to be private?
If the kid was 8, I think there might just not be enough commonality in terms of likes for there to be a conversation that could be sustained. As far as I know, I have never conversed with someone so young in an online forum- they generally just aren't interested in them. Even younger teens generally aren't.
Going back to the issue of privacy, sometimes, people of all ages don't want to be scrutinized publicly. I remember when I first got online at the age of 17, I avoided the public places entirely, instead striking up conversations privately with people of all ages.