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Seems obvious that one shouldn't have a relationship with a student when they're responsible for grading their performance in any fashion. Ethically this is too much conflict of interest, and incentivizes students to seduce professors.
How to prevent it? Don't really know.
Outside that, I have an extremely strong 'don't shit where you eat' rule that, were I a professor, would preclude me from pursuing a relationship before the other party graduated. Although I'd probably end up bending the rule if they were in their final semester and weren't taking any of my classes.
The 'rationalist' take is going to just be the pure utilitarian "do the benefits outweigh the harms, as far as can be predicted in advance?"
But that discussion could end up going a few different ways. The naive version is "as long as the relationship is kosher by the standard of any other romantic/sexual pairing, should be fine."
Not clear why the rationalist take would change much just because it's professor/student.
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