I’ve started off by providing a *certified BOP* by the lovely Kelly Clarkson. I wanted to put this song here because it is just one example of this rhetoric that is common in our society. Her chorus sings: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Stand a little taller. Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone. What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter. Footsteps even lighter.” Kelly Clarkson wasn’t the origin of the phrase. The German philosopher Freidrich Nietzche originally phrased it as “what does not kill me makes me stronger” in his book Twilight of the Idols (1888). It has become a common phrase and a sentiment that I…