You have failed in taking the simile for the point it intended to make (and you gravely misrepresented the concept of "mental development" as clearly intended). Let us stick to the point.

Edit: I will translate it again for you: "the problem of a bad reactor is not in its innocent trigger".

But rest assured, I do not antropomorphize people.

I think they do it because they know they can get away with it since it would be hard to prove in cases where they are already in an intimate relationship with their victim. For a long time it wasn’t even illegal if they were married to their victim.