Some people have kindly explained the culture of safetyism to me. Sounds like a recipe for a world so boring and stodgy one would die of boredom, not hurty words. Such a culture is where curiosity, excellence and greatness die - truly the culture of Brave New World

Do we think that a culture of 'emotional safety' is what created, say, the Gothic Cathedrals? The wonders of medieval Florence? The poetry of Shakespeare?

This is a world where, by removing all sources of danger, we also eliminate all sources of greatness in the process

Being human necessarily involves the possibility of danger and risk. These things are implied by the spontaneity & creativity which define us. Without the possibility of sin, the free will that makes virtue possible can't exist. Without freedom, we might as all well not be alive

No-one has said it better than Huxley's famous quote from Brave New World: 'But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.'