@DrFell @mk @Sirensabotage @RoboftheVolcano
And what I am adding. What new insight I add to this long lasting theory of hard times creating strong men is that THERE ARE NO GUARANTEE that the hard times will create strong men.
It is rather the opposite. Hard times will create weak and deranged men. Drug addicts, wife beaters, murderers and robbers and welfare bums.
Only in rare occasions have hard times created strong men. Thus it seems like the correlation is not strong.