![]() The problem is that we are all prone to emotional thinking and confirmation bias. ![]() On top of that, Gen Z is being taught that their feelings are always right. This lack of exposure means that as they grow older, they can’t adequately assess risk-leading many to equate words and ideas that they disagree with to physical harm. ![]() ![]() Sheltered from any specter of harm as children, the youth of America are experiencing risk at later ages than previous generations. In this recent talk at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Haidt explains three of the six causes of the emergence of this new moral culture of “safetyism.” He dives into how paranoid parenting, decline of free play, and the growth of bureaucracy and moral dependence have contributed to the attitudes of current college students. Haidt and Lukianoff continued to explore the movement and its origins, publishing a book by the same name in 2018. Within a few years, tensions over “unsafe” words on campus briefly grew violent as the problems continued to escalate. ![]() In September 2015, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff published “ The Coddling of the American Mind”, an article examining the student-driven movement to scrub universities of words and subjects that might cause offense. ![]()
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