Safe Space

“Adults don’t need a safe space; children and pets do.”

Increasingly, in modern-societies, adults are deceptively being touted to govern their thinking and decisions-making based on each other’s feelings rather than based on facts. This is even more noticeable in self-help, motivational, and leadership teachings where people are actively looking to improve their lives.

This appeals-to-emotions strategy is termed by Theory of Self-Relativity as “Empathy-Crusade” which is defined as “appealing to the emotions of the weak and the susceptible, in order to manipulate them for personal gains.” By encouraging victimhood, entitlement, and blame-shifting, the manipulative and opportunistic teachers and influencers trick people into thinking it is the role of others to make their lives easier and safer. Instead of teaching self-agency and personal-responsibility, appealing to people’s emotions makes it easy for the manipulators to win-over and control those who are looking to improve their lives but are having difficulty. However, such dependency and reliance creates even more dependency and helplessness.

While it is good and moral to protect and provide safety for society’s dependent entities such as children, pets and the elderly; the able adults must not only create emotional safe-spaces for these dependents, but they must stop their entitled expectation of other-people making them feel safe.

Adults should be able to walk-away and move-on from an “emotionally-unsafe” environment.