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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in high school I was not attractive (acne, over weight) and had trouble making friends. Lunch was the most stressful. I had no regular group to sit with. Sometimes I would sit in the library to do homework during lunch while secretly eating my sandwich. Would I have enjoyed DL? Absolutely. Would it have been the best thing for me? NO. Kids need to learn how to navigate the world and sometimes difficult social situations. We are really depriving them of a lot of soft skills this year. You can’t spend your entire life hiding behind a computer. There are distractions and hardships in real life. We need to help teach our kids to face them. [/quote]

I disagree. Suffering and hardships are not necessary to learn what life is about.  Many years later and you are still not over the feelings of being lonely and excluded.

What kind of soft skills did you learn by eating alone at the library?

Now imagine being in DL but having a local place to go that had smaller interest-based groups of teens. Sports, crafts, music, volunteering, work, etc. You'd be able to switch clubs whenever you wanted, you'd have less structure imposed on you, and less social demands. For all the kids who were bullied and ostracized, DL is a great thing.

That said, pandemic is terrible and I can't  wait to get out of it.
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I think there is a difference between hardships and suffering. No one should exalt or fetishize suffering. We have plenty of evidence that suffering oppresses much more than it inspires. But some hardship? I actually agree that it's a large part of becoming the kind of person that is best to be around. When I think of the people who have experienced almost nothing difficult min their lives (which isn't many) and ehhhhh, these people are usually lacking in empathy a bit and/ just a little bit clueless about lives of others and themselves[/quote]

There are different types of hardships. Which ones are you talking about?

Loneliness, ostracism, and bullying are not known to promote empathy and “becoming the kind of person that is best to be around”.  Rather, they contribute to long-term depression, anxiety,  and other negative health outcomes.
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