Should We Bubble Wrap the World?

We all love bubble wrap right? What we love about it is popping the bubbles, right? (Does anyone not see a metaphor coming?)In a post a few months ago about the idiot that petitioned Facebook to remove the “feeling fat”emoji,I said that “nobody’s going to bubble wrap the world to make it safe.” In fact, I don’t want anyone to make the whole world perfectly safe.

Much like our immune system, unless we’re exposed to dangers, we’ll never learn to cope with them. Sadly though, I think that as a s...