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Look: if you are so fragile you need a [[safe space]], don’t go out, and [[get off Twitter]]. | Look: if you are so fragile you need a [[safe space]], don’t go out, and [[get off Twitter]]. | ||
[[Safe space]]s protect bad ideas. Good ideas don’t need safe spaces. Humans are [[antifragile]] things: we react well to ''little'' shocks: they toughen us up. | [[Safe space]]s protect bad ideas. Good ideas don’t need safe spaces. Humans are [[antifragile]] things: we react well to ''little'' shocks: they toughen us up. Insulating ourselves from them makes us yet more prone to them. It wasn’t {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} who first make this connection by the way, but {{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}. | ||
{{quote|“It’s this idea of constantly rethinking, “Okay, what [[System|systems]] might be unfair in the world? What groups might be disadvantaged or marginalized or excluded, and what is my responsibility and my opportunity to try to do something about that?” That’s something we should always be open to revising.” | {{quote|“It’s this idea of constantly rethinking, “Okay, what [[System|systems]] might be unfair in the world? What groups might be disadvantaged or marginalized or excluded, and what is my responsibility and my opportunity to try to do something about that?” That’s something we should always be open to revising.” | ||