Nobody is saying to treat "inferior" animals like dogs or horses or cats badly. Everybody should be against animal cruelty, but we don't let animals v...
I get it - I was trying to work within your metaphysic. I was saying that the implication is that you can't defend the child from fire ants because th...
You can add black south africans over white south africans to this list. I also wonder what's to be said about cities or even states where one group m...
But that's the old, boring definition of racism. The new, exciting definition is power + prejudice, so even the most anti-black white south african or...
You really can't win either way. If you just try to view individuals as individuals and try to make as few preconceptions as possible, you're racially...
I was just commenting on your tendency to try to reduce organizations (the state in this case) to the level of the individual. This is a common theme ...
Ok, I will follow along. I want to be included among the sacred! But guess what? Under your metaphysic, everything is infinitely sacred because God is...
Maybe it's an intersectional one? I'm not sure. Yes, I'll be lumped in with a global conspiracy that motivates some on the far right. According to som...
I agree with you on the democracy part. You're kind of arguing more in line with a perspective associated with the right/libertarian side of the coin ...
Just because I believe inequality must exist for value to maintain its meaning doesn't mean I think inequality needs to be ubiquitous in every facet o...
I understand that and I understand where you're coming from. I agree. However, just because something works a given way doesn't mean we ought to throw...
It's really not that simple. If someone is 1/8 black are they black or white? Who is society to deny their blackness? Who is society to tell, say, Ash...
I'll just note that Jews and Muslims don't believe in omni-benevolence in God. I'd be interested to know how widespread the belief is among Christians...
None of this is biblically supported, and it's not a view that any Jew or Christian would take. I've never heard any Muslim take it as well. I just st...
Good governance don't cancel out evil, it's like if you had a dad who's a good guy like 95% of the time but the other 5% he's a genocidal maniac and k...
Could you elaborate? If we're going by the combined death toll of the Maoist government, Stalinist government, and Nazi regime you're gonna need quite...
That's a good question and I can't give a detailed answer because I'm not a historian but there are plenty of good books on it. I think the short answ...
We need to expand our discussion outside of the US. We're lucky to be living in the US, at least compared to other nations. Other states are not so ki...
I think what you're saying is often true, but it doesn't account for evil in its entirety. If you look at Ted Bundy and some other serial killers, for...
If you look at the 20th century the numbers killed by government are beyond enormous - more than even the worst murderers could dream of. I think that...
When learning a new language I try not to judge how "correct" that language is (i.e. how it matches up to my understanding of the world) and instead I...
This x1000. It's funny, I've been here maybe a year and I've been relatively active and there are plenty of other relatively active posters but it'll ...
Ok, this might just be a cultural difference (you're Australian, right?) In the States, as far as I can tell, socialism is pretty much always used as ...
Interesting, I have a few questions about what socialism constitutes for you. Under socialism, would someone be able to start their own independent bu...
If we look at a dictionary, coercion is the use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance. Something needs a mind to be able to coerce - people ca...
Thanks for sharing your story. I will say that for those who work within the system - that is, have a normal 9-5 job, pay rent, average salary, not mu...
This is fine by me. What I was implying with the phrase "ideologically possessed" is the idea that ideas possess people. It's interesting to think abo...
No, by saying that I "bite the bullet" on that one it means I accept your premise; I just don't view it as a negative. I'm fine accepting that there's...
You have a legitimate claim here. I am not dismissing your claim. If the government or the white man or whoever takes your property and violates your ...
I'll bite the bullet on this one. It is my property. It is my rights, and it is my money. These things are hugely important. It's not just about me th...
Maybe in some vague, general sense everyone possesses some ideology or way of viewing the world, but not everyone is equally ideologically possessed. ...
I don't really want to argue with you here, I just kind of feel bad because you're clearly ideologically possessed. I mean how am I suppose to argue w...
So what are the limits to collective empathy? Does the academic left just feel empathy with all poor people around the world? How about all poor peopl...
Not to triple post, but I find this subject interesting. There's about 38 million Americans under the poverty line. Obviously it's impossible to know ...
I really like this response because it really captures the essence of it. Capitalists are not just wrong, they're bad people according to the thinking...
I was raised in a upper middle class home and I used be a socialist and for much of my life I was on the left. Financially speaking everything was alw...
The field of philosophy, as an academic discipline, is traditionally anathema to this type of discourse, and there's a reason behind it. Traditionally...
I don't understand why we're only talking about privilege along racial lines here. One of the biggest privileges in life is physical attraction and it...
I just don't believe people are blank slates waiting to be filled up by whatever the culture presents. I think if we were we'd be seeing an insane deg...
I don't believe that physical attractiveness is just a cultural phenomenon. I don't believe humans are endlessly malleable through culture, either. Th...
Got it, so we just need to teach people to value quality of character over attractiveness and we're all set. Attractiveness no longer matters. You rea...
Great, well I'm thrilled to hear it. I love getting specific, there's just so many issues to address. Lets start with the issue of attractiveness in m...
Jersey, I'm asking you how do we, as a society, fix the inequality/unfairness/oppression of these issues? You say you want to target all forms of oppr...
We have not already done this. We have come nowhere close. Answer me this: Why are there still ugly people? Why are there still tall people? Why are t...
I think he'd say there's a billion different reasons that could have caused one to be "oppressed." I think if we, as a society, were to honestly targe...
Peterson isn't specifically talking about the culture here, he would consider it just a general truism of life that people are oppressed or fall short...
It's interesting that you say he reinforces and justifies privilege. Where do you get that? I get it if it's just a general critique of capitalism or ...
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