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A Great Explorer who doesn't come back however is not a Great Explorer. It is Someone Who Died Doing Something Stupid. It is someone who went Insane.

The point of going into the void is to bring some light and warmth back, not to be swallowed by it, or to come back a screaming meteor lighting the town on fire.

Setting a boundary is like: "Hail there good sir, I see you too are headed towards the Void of Death" "Aye, that I am. Good to meet you. I am a grower of Apples." "Apples, you say, how wonderful. I am a grower of oranges."

To acknowledge an individual means to accept that every One will have a terrific life (terror filled) no matter what happens.

Initiation rituals like spartan children surviving in the wilderness have this at their core. It is a brutal test, but the results create individuals fast and hard.

We have more subtle and non life-threatening methods nowadays. Of course... they fail when teachers are just stamping A's on tests.

Instead of being eaten by wolves you drown in debt and the terror of homelessness. The "punishment" for not learning about personal responsibility and compound interest.

The gatekeepers are right. Such egregious stupidity and immaturity will lower the bar for all of society. The teachers are to blame. Punish them. Lower their pay. Maybe that'll solve the problem.