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 - Without the ability to attach fear to certain objects, the "world itself" becomes fearsome. Humans attach fear to certain objects, thus enabling them to view the world from a simpler perspective of "safe", and "unsafe
 - Those in the discriminated group are often led to mask discomfort because societally, especially in "dominant groups", showing fear is seen as a sign of weakness. They are not able to avoid interacting with the dominant group without facing significant socioeconomic consequences.
 - The effect of safe spaces is to restrict the movement of parties *least likely* to cause trouble. This includes examples like restricting females to dorms to keep them safe from roving males, to the creation of a LGBT school for the protection of those students
-- The creation of safe spaces places people into categories, categories built around fear. This is effectively actively *investing* in the set of societal norms, creating further discrimination and harm. 
+- The creation of safe spaces places people into categories, categories built around fear. This is effectively actively *investing* in the set of societal norms, creating further discrimination and harm. 
+### Understanding emotions
+- Emotions come to be with reference to relational, socially constructed, context oriented experience
+- Separation is one way in which responding to an event results in the event being recorded as "something to be afraid of" in the amygdala
+- In may ways, safe spaces enable the habituation of fear in this manner
+- Fear is an emotion that's more easily used to hurt or control others, by making targeted groups afraid, then you give the dominant group control over them