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Maine East High School female teacher charged with sexually abusing ex-student

I found out a few years after I left that several kids on the hockey team had been regularly railing my spanish teacher all through high school.

blew my mind.
 
I see nothing wrong with an older woman having sex with a 16 year old, if it's consentual.

I see nothing wrong with a 38 year old having sex with a 16 year old, regardless of gender; sixteen years is a grown man or woman, fully capable of performing sexually and understanding whether or not they want to.

I have one Hell of a problem with a person in a position of authority and trust-- such as a teacher-- using that position to gain sexual favors from the people who are supposedly in their care. This holds true regardless of whether the subordinate in question is an adult or not.
 
I have one Hell of a problem with a person in a position of authority and trust-- such as a teacher-- using that position to gain sexual favors from the people who are supposedly in their care. This holds true regardless of whether the subordinate in question is an adult or not.

Hierarchy creates a capacity for unduly coercive influence, but such a capacity doesn't necessarily become reality. That's why a consequentialist ethical perspective is most suitable in analyzing such cases, really.
 
Hierarchy creates a capacity for unduly coercive influence, but such a capacity doesn't necessarily become reality.

I disagree, or would at least argue that "doesn't necessarily" still leaves room for the vast majority of cases to develop in this direction-- and consequentialist analysis aside, this still occurs in the vast majority of cases when the party with authority enters the relationship with the best of intentions. They simply do not believe that they will end up abusing their power.

No, I think an absolute moral prohibition of entering into sexual relationships with one's subordinates is the bare minimum requirement.
 
I disagree, or would at least argue that "doesn't necessarily" still leaves room for the vast majority of cases to develop in this direction-- and consequentialist analysis aside, this still occurs in the vast majority of cases when the party with authority enters the relationship with the best of intentions. They simply do not believe that they will end up abusing their power.

No, I think an absolute moral prohibition of entering into sexual relationships with one's subordinates is the bare minimum requirement.

Do you have empirical research validating this assessment? That is, the specific premise that relationships between a superior and a subordinate typically end in the consequence of harm? Otherwise, I'm not overly concerned. The everyday institutions of wage labor trouble me as being more negative forms of hierarchy.
 
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