Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "3 great untruths to stop telling kids—and ourselves | Jonathan Haidt | Big Think" video.

  1. What do you expect from a channel that calls itself "Big Think" - sounds like something straight from the Ministry of Truth to me.
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  2. There are those people who are made stronger through adversity, but it largely depends on the severity and nature of the adversity. The human body is capable of surviving and physically healing from all kinds of damage, but often times there are physical scars or chronic disorders that we suffer for the rest of our lives and are obvious to world usually causing a response of sympathy or willingness to make allowances for the persons condition. The same is true of the injuries to our minds and spirit, but because those scars aren't as obvious it's much easier to minimize or dismiss outright damage and chronic injuries just as debilitating as someone missing a limb or confined to a wheelchair. Failure and hardship can be great teachers because you don't want to repeat doing or having bad things happen and there are often times people around who can help you survive the immediate injury or problem. But all too often we fail at helping each other with the long term damage after those bad things happen. Even worse is the whole "cowboy up and walk it off" attitude expressed by too many. If we can eliminate that mind set from our species I suspect we'd be better off. That being said, children also shouldn't be raised in a completely protected bubble. We need to go out and play and fall down and skin our knees and get in arguments and maybe even a fight or two when we are young so that we learn how to deal with success and failure and maybe make fewer mistakes when we become adults.
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  3. There a host of reasons why we will probably always end up dividing ourselves into smaller groups. The problem comes when we have to compete for resources either because there are too many of us or some one or few want to posses the resources and not allow others access to them. We'd be much better off if we couldn't or didn't breed as prolifically as we do. There are a few billion too many of us at the moment and it isn't slowing down, but that will change in spite of us in the coming decades since we aren't going to alter our course voluntarily.
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