I had an elderly grad school Mammalogy professor who was always thrilled to show us cute fuzzy creatures on a slide show, tell us what was unique, both taxonomically and phylogenetically, about them, and of course if or if not he had gotten a chance to pet them or wanted to still.

I would be thrilled to teach that course with half of the passion he did. Bonus points if it opened doors to work in the field and pet some of those mofos.

I figure if you were an underage minor and these are two grown ex-legionnaires there would be no grey area on the ethics of it.

Who tf are you that your parents sent you off with two trained men as protection as I’m sure they have expenses also? Lol.

You’re an adult, I guess you can play the baby sitter game to appease your parents, but there’s not really a power dynamic there unless you let there be one.