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"they have a right to feel safe." Infants and small children have a natural right to feel safe, but not maturing children nor young adults. You don't grow into adulthood in any real sense if you are in such a protected environment that you feel safe, you never develop the intelligence or will to stand on your own feet - and stand your ground. Colleges should not be nursery schools.

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There is no right to feel safe, or a right any feeling. In many cases, feeling safe is a good thing but that doesn't make it a right. And sometimes, feeling safe is a bad thing but that doesn't mean it must be avoided.

And it's not a natural right. A natural right is something you can exercise on your own. Safety is something that, as an infant or young child, needs to be provided by someone else. While I still don't think it's a right, using that as a reference, it is a civil right.

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