Thread by @wolfejosh

1/ I wish for a BETTER world for my kids.

A world where
they can *feel* offended but have no right to be protected from feeling offended or feeling uncomfortable if they are insulted for any reason or someone says or does something wrong, ignorant, misinformed, rude or uncivil

2/ A world where
-they can make mistakes and commit errors and be given a chance to correct them and not cancelled

-they can be surrounded + welcoming of diverse people with diverse life experiences + diverse POVs who may also make mistakes + commit errors and BE corrected

3/A world where
-they must COMPETE intellectually, physically, psychologically when there are zero-sum outcomes + lose if they deserve to lose
-they must learn to COOPERATE with people different than themselves with different POVs who they might have to play non zero-sum games w

4/ A world where
-their INDIVIDUALITY is celebrated and they celebrate others INDIVIDUALITY are they are not simplistically lumped into singular generalized tribal categories by religious belief, musical preference, geographies, school, city, nationality, height, skin or hair

5/ A world where
-they know when they (and others) are (un)LUCKY or (un)SKILLFUL
-where they know the difference so as to condemn inequality from EFFECTS of involuntary circumstances
AND yet celebrate inequality from EFFORTS of voluntary competitiveness

6/ A world where
-they have freedom to pursue ALL ideas, even dangerous ones so as to know good ideas + reject bad ideas, not by censoring them but by refutation and to push new ideas not by consensus or group popularity but by superior arguments even if from a lone individual