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This has been bothering me for years, long before covid-19. Avoiding risk has become such a huge part of our culture that most of our standard salutations revol

This has been bothering me for years, long before covid-19. Avoiding risk has become such a huge part of our culture that most of our standard salutations revolve around this: "stay safe", "have a safe trip", "drive safely", and so forth. I'd much rather that people would wish me a fulfilling life in which I available myself of many rich experiences.

whipaway 5y ago
That brings to mind "safetyism" coined in the The Coddling of the American Mind. Unsurprisingly safety is invoked in a variety of ways when certain people encounter ideas they don't like. Doing so allows a person to completely sidestep the responsibility of mounting an argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_M...