There exist in the American academic world many people who would applaud this here, today.
Here is the thing: to get at the root of why this is so repugnant, you need the notion of psychological development and individuation, and maturation and maturity. You need the concept of “adult” to juxtapose with “child”.
As we are seeing on our streets, many people want to dispense with these ideas. They want to dispense with the idea that each of us has a duty to become progressively more mature in how we relate to the world emotionally; they want to reject the idea that we need to grow up.
Everything is enmeshed. Boundaries are blurred. Nothing exists in itself, not in a good way, but in the worst possible way. Emotionally, it is like being in the Blob.
In good spiritual experience, you expand. In this sort of experience, you are crushed.
It’s low key astonishing that any of us still possess the ability to make basic moral distinctions. It’s something that is waning, clearly.