... not with this: you want to leave it up to the teleiophiles in the children's lives to sort it out based on what's best for the children

This, of course, presumes that youth liberation will never occur. I think it will, just as all forms of emancipation have. But that is neither here nor there right now.

Secondly, it operates from an extraordinary bias on the part of those who follow Ethan's school of thought, and a rather inexplicable one too, when you look at a multitude of available evidence: That while MAPs are apparently too biased to make objective decisions based on the actual welfare of a given youth, teleiophile adults are lacking in bias! How this frankly absurd statement can possibly be taken with even a modicum of seriousness is beyond comprehension. Teleiophile adults have proven and made it clear on literally too many occasions to count that they find the mere thought of intergenerational attraction disgusting and revolting, and do not want younger people engaging in them under general principle. They have likewise shown that they find it extremely difficult to avoid personally disliking any adult who is known to have such a natural attraction base, regardless of what his personal behavior or known character traits happen to be.

More importantly, parents are notorious for their inability to put their own strong emotional biases aside when it comes to determining what is best for their kids, oftentimes deciding what is "best" for their children on the basis of what is best for the parents themselves. Their main interest is to maintain control over the actions of their children as much as possible, and acting in the objective best interests of their children can be quite difficult if that might require ceding their status as an authority figure. They are more interested in their kids ultimately doing what they want them to do than to do what may be objectively right for them, or even doing the right thing in general.

I don't think this is being unfair to parents, or to teleiophile adults in general, because their typical behavior in the current political climate, when one has such a disproportionate degree of power over the other, has been more than crystal clear on too many occasions to count.

The only reason Ethan and others of his ideological ilk could possibly present such caveats as fair and unbiased is not because they find them to be so, but simply because they are rightfully confident that most parents and other teleophile adults will invariably object to such relationships if given the final say due to their inability to stomach them under general principle. And as long as younger people are kept disempowered and bereft of agency, then they see themselves as having relatively little to worry about. The status quo will usually be maintained, everyone will usually keep their proper place in the established pecking order, and the sensibilities of those who enjoy all the power and control will usually remain free from being offended. It's all as simple as that. Let's not pretend there is nuance where there is most certainly none to actually be found.