Jeffrey Tucker, "A Case for Danger"

"The impulse to create environments that are hyper-cushioned and protected does not prepare anyone for effective functioning in real life. That's because this type of environment has nothing to do with the real world. No matter how much we regulate, manage, create safety nets and otherwise build systems that remove obvious dangers from the word, the structure of the universe guarantees that the future is always unknown. Uncertainty does exist and cannot be eradicated. Change happens, and we have to be prepared to adapt to it. Nothing that happened in the past can necessarily be repeated in a changed future".