You want to make a fine knife? Take quality steel, then heat it, pound it, cool it, do that over again. The repeated stress produces a tough knife with a keen edge. It’s the same for people. Making things easy is not wise if we seek tough individuals, not sheep.
The elite would like to make us obedient sheep. But unexpectedly, we may desperately need tough individuals. It’s good to have them in stock. Perhaps it is not an accident that the man who disarmed the Colorado Springs club shooter is named Fierro. It means iron in Italian and Spanish.