Safetyism causes a feedback loop in which people become ever more fragile
When people live in a culture of safetyism, which teaches people to stay “emotionally safe” while protecting them from every imaginable danger, it may set up a feedback loop: those people become more fragile and less resilient, which signals to others that they need more protection, which then makes them even more fragile and less resilient. The end result may be a widespread backfiring effect in which the “cure” turns out to be a primary cause of the disease.
References
- Lukianoff, Greg. Haidt, Jonathan. (2019). The Coddling of the American Mind Chapter 1 The Untruth of Fragility What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker (Epub p. 45). New York, NY: Penguin Random House.
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