Argumentative Essay On Safe Space

The Safe Space Network defines a safe space as, “A place where the rules guard each person’s self-respect and dignity and strongly encourage everyone to respect others.” Many college campuses across the country has these “safe spaces”. In Brown University, their safe space includes cookies, coloring books, bubbles, a video of puppies, and other child-like related items meant to promote self expression, no matter how controversial the utilizer’s gender identity, religious beliefs, or culture. Contrary to their name, I believe safe spaces have the potential for extreme danger when students cannot express their ideas outside of those zones. Being told to keep ideas to one’s self restricts important qualities of human nature--self-expression and individuality. The fear of offending others, an increase in narcissistic value, and a
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy argues, “Free speech becomes a volatile issue when it is highly valued because only then do the limitations placed upon it become controversial.” Although I agree that America values free speech, I believe that the American citizen values only their own free speech. Appreciating my own free speech but no one else’s begins the endless cycle of an easily offended nation. Today’s culture utilizes free speech to stop free speech. When one person believes in marriage meant for a male and female and another believes in marriage for any mix of genders, who calls who a hater? Well balanced tolerance solves the problem of offending others, but only through patience . Society continually presents itself with contradicting views, as a part of human nature. Attempting to protect people from each other's views only opens the door to an easily offended population. It becomes effortless in a society of instant gratification to let narcissism take over. Once America loses the tolerance facet of citizenship, it allows everyone to offend each