“I just dont understand how threatening people will stop the issue. I usually have a great respect for Rabanim But I dont understand. They didnt stop anyone from talking to the opposite gender since every kid will just find a different way to do it and getting a letter isnt going to be a miraculous “oh yes i totally didnt realize i was doing something so different but thank you rabbis now i realize. All they accomplished is have these kids continue and on top of that hate rabbanim”
Do you also think we should have kept quiet about the whole alternate lifestyle marriage issue? Or did you agree then that we should stand in the way of culture changing behavior as much as possible? In either case you don’t have a chance of stopping the reprehensible behavior. But it is worth delegitimizing it for the sake of preserving social norms.