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The Emma Watson effect

In a world where people born into - or granted - privilege at young ages, relegates them to experiences devoid of the friction required to rear authentic understanding merited by experience, should the world we aim for be one of granting everyone the privilege of lacking the discomfort and strife of conflict and friction, how will we be able to continue rearing living organisms who exercise the cognitive relevance to understand virtues beyond their performative effects, and surrogate understandings?

In such a future, or in the presence of lack of understanding, I believe it will be necessary to create educational means to curate experiences (through consented simulation and curriculum of authentic assessment, maybe) that cultivate first hand through abrasive experience and demonstrated friction, a sincere understanding in the ethical purposes supporting law and regulation.

4Cleo Nardo1y

1. Why should this be named for Emma Watson? 2. "experiences devoid of the friction" --> this is not what the life of wealthy/privileged people is like 3. "required to rear authentic understanding merited by experience" 1. People born wealthy/privileged have a good understanding of the world. 2. I'm suspicious of the 'authentic' modifier, and of 'merited'.