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Seeing pre-teens dating is always going to be weird. I'd say it's a biproduct of Western society entering a more sexually open age. This in itself is a good thing, but coupled with celebrity-worship and child-targeted commerce, it's had this knock-on effect. I don't know where I stand on that.
It's a shame that children won't be enjoying more innocence in their youth. They won't have as much to look back on fondly later in life. If they're developing true feelings, emotional and sexual, then fine. We shouldn't stiffle them. But if they're being coerced into it by peer pressure and the media (which is so obviously the case in many instances), then that's a bad thing.
The bottom line is that we should respect children and recognise them as human beings with the same rights, even if they are largely stupid and obnoxious.
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I was gonna say something like this, but Max has taken it and amplified it ten times beyond whatever I could've done.