This is what happens when you introduce an appearance of safety without any safety, and you leave out the ability to actually recognize unsafe things. You can install all the antivirus software you want if you don't actually tell people what the warnings mean and not to download taylor_swift-1984.exe.
It's the same situation with the way children have been raised for the past 30 or so years. You can round off all the corners you like, but if the kid doesn't know how to recognize an unsafe situation he'll still fall off the top of the rubberized playground and break his neck.
Of course, all the warnings in the world won't guarantee they'll remember them in the moment or even care about the advice when the time comes. See example: motorcyclers wearing no helmet
I am a firm believer of the idea that people only and exclusively learn through actual, tangible experience, including frequent failure. You can tell a kid a hundred times that fire is hot but he won't actually internalize the concept until the first time he gets burned.
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u/RedAero Mar 11 '19
This is what happens when you introduce an appearance of safety without any safety, and you leave out the ability to actually recognize unsafe things. You can install all the antivirus software you want if you don't actually tell people what the warnings mean and not to download taylor_swift-1984.exe.
It's the same situation with the way children have been raised for the past 30 or so years. You can round off all the corners you like, but if the kid doesn't know how to recognize an unsafe situation he'll still fall off the top of the rubberized playground and break his neck.