Part of the urgent practical value in spreading stories and facts that provoke fear or grief is that they acclimate large swathes of the population to a range of emotions and circumstances they’ve largely been shielded from as a result of fortune and privilege.
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Totally not necessary. Those kids and many others will breeze right past this step and carry on with their work/play. Many people do need to immerse in the fire if it wasn’t in their lesson plan already; this messaging is a form of testing
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Interesting open question in my mind how much deep learning and growth can be achieved without some experience of trauma (i.e. rights of passage etc). Welcome thoughts/ref’s if you got ‘em!
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