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Yes, yes, knock yourselves without witty rejoinders about metal fatigue and polio, but [[Nietzsche]]’s aphorism articulates the fundamentally [[anti-fragile]] nature of the human being — and where it doesn’t apply neatly to individuals, it tends to apply to the ''species''.<ref>Per {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}: the gene pool is fragile, even where organisms are not.</ref>
Yes, yes, knock yourselves without witty rejoinders about metal fatigue and polio, but [[Nietzsche]]’s aphorism articulates the fundamentally [[anti-fragile]] nature of the human being — and where it doesn’t apply neatly to individuals, it tends to apply to the ''species''.<ref>Per {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}: the gene pool is fragile, even where organisms are not.</ref>


And consider the converse, neurotic [[coronavirus]] obsessives: :“Avoiding things that might hurt, but won’t kill me, makes me ''weaker''.”
And consider the converse, neurotic [[coronavirus]] obsessives:
:“Avoiding things that might hurt, but won’t kill me, makes me ''weaker''.”


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*{{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}}
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