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# Wellspring: Apologia: Explicit sandboxing of protected classes:
## The rational justification for sandboxing:
Humans are a rational species, and the faculty of reason is a rational creature's only tool for survival. Experience and knowledge are the raw materials for our
minds to use to form abstractions which enable us to thrive both in terms of subsistence and in terms of our ability to forge useful relationships and integrate
into social systems.
We recognize that certain crucial categories of experience and knowledge take time to develop, and that prior to the mastery of these areas of competency, it is
expected that those individuals who have not had the chance to master those competences will err and will perform below the expected competence of one who has
mastered those competences.
Sandboxing is a necessary mechanism for the development of a rational creature which is **not omnipotent** and whose tool for survival and thriving is the
**gradual acquisition of conceptual knowledge**.
Let there be no ambiguity: `Wellspring` recognizes and champions the need for the protection of the mind of a developing rational being from exploitation by mature
predators seeking to sneak into a playpen of disarmed, underdeveloped minds and poach easy prey.
## The role of `Wellspring`'s sandboxing legal abstraction:
Every society treats certain selected groups of people with "kid gloves" and assigns them protected status within a "transparent" bubble or sandbox.
It is difficult to balance the need to preserve these sandboxes while also preserving the dignity of the people who are benefitting from the sandbox - the
people inhabiting the sandbox may find it unpleasant and demeaning to be constantly told that they are in fact, inhabiting a sandbox.
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Wellspring has chosen to introduce an explicit framework for thinking about these overlapping sandboxes inhabited by protected classes of individuals.
## The rational justification for sandboxing:
Humans are a rational species, and the faculty of reason is a rational creature's only tool for survival. Experience and knowledge are the raw materials for our
minds to use to form abstractions which enable us to thrive both in terms of subsistence and in terms of our ability to forge useful relationships and integrate
into social systems.
We recognize that certain crucial categories of experience and knowledge take time to develop, and that prior to the mastery of these areas of competency, it is
expected that those individuals who have not had the chance to master those competences will err and will perform below the expected competence of one who has
mastered those competences.
Sandboxing is a necessary mechanism for the development of a rational creature which is **not omnipotent** and whose tool for survival and thriving is the
**gradual acquisition of conceptual knowledge**.
Let there be no ambiguity: `Wellspring` recognizes and champions the need for the protection of the mind of a developing rational being from exploitation by mature
predators seeking to sneak into a playpen of disarmed, underdeveloped minds and poach easy prey.
## Examples of sandboxes which should be explicitly recognized by the polity:
Not all of these sandboxes are appropriately by legislation, and private sector mechanisms are obviously both sufficient and ideal for many of them (such as the