Ok, this is not what Peterson is saying. Of course a disordered person can produce a good argument. Peterson isn't concerned here with the type of arg...
He means set yourself/your mindset in order. Peterson starts off the chapter talking about the Columbine killers and Carl Panzram - both of whom hated...
Chapter 6 of Peterson's book is "Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world" but he obviously doesn't mean that literally. He's no...
That's a good question. Acknowledgment would be a good first step. I don't know exactly what it implies but the fact that it exists means it should pr...
Height privilege is absolutely a thing, especially among men. Taller men are privileged. In my mind though the existence of a privilege doesn't imply ...
I have no problem with building solidarity among the underprivileged, the problem is when (or if) it descends into a kind of provincialism... all in a...
I agree with what you're saying about the stairs. The ability to use the stairs is a privilege. The ability to walk unimpeded is also a privilege. Eve...
Yes, morality has changed. What you're describing here is descriptive moral relativism (just basically a factual description of the world, yes, moral ...
I don't know if there are any implications to it. It's still a useful thought experiment to try to put yourself in someone else's shoes and consider t...
Any desirable attribute is not a privilege, for instance take a professional football player. The hard work & sacrifice he's put into it isn't privile...
Then call it something else, I don't care. The gist is that it's an unearned advantage - it's something you don't need to worry about. Would it be oka...
Yeah, call it whatever. If you're not comfortable calling it privilege then I don't really care. Attraction does matter, I agree.... I don't know if I...
Intellectually disabled people can't hold the vast majority of jobs. I know someone who's intellectually disabled (IQ of around 65) and the vast major...
It doesn't really matter what I consider intellectually disabled and I don't see what you're getting at here by asking me this. Like would it really m...
I would rather appreciate people's talents too, Asif. I'd rather sit down and have a beer with someone who's very talented in some field and just enjo...
Alright, well, I've made my case. I understand it might be psychologically healthier for someone to ignore the idea of privilege and the idea can cert...
Do you have an alternative framing that you'd like to present? I'm not saying that beauty or intelligence is entirely privilege, but there's a part of...
All I mean by privilege is something that is an unearned advantage in some regard. The central idea behind it is that it's unearned - some have it, so...
I understand how the thinking can be toxic - we shouldn't be going around thinking about how someone is privileged and another person is a victim... a...
Yes, and there's also the social part to it - how these biological traits or other unearned traits are treated in society. I get it - you don't need t...
I'm not responding to defend Banno and I'm not too familiar with how the concept of privilege is used in left wing circles, but it seems to me that th...
The way I see it, virtually everybody is privileged in some ways and un-privileged in others. Many feminists today pride themselves on being "intersec...
True. Also true. Yes, having the ability to walk is absolutely a privilege. A lot of people don't notice it. The thing about disability is that it's n...
Stairs present an obstacle to a certain group of disabled people making them ableist, so is any man-made thing or human convention or practice that pr...
I like how you didn't address the rest of my questions because it would have led you to conclude that that basically everything on the planet is ablei...
You said "Systematic discrimination against people with a disability takes the form of stairs." This is just wrong because it totally neglects the big...
It's not just about suffering, it's likely systemic discrimination as is the case with the ugly. When I hear "the system intentionally built..." I wan...
I'm saying that the vast majority - maybe all, I don't know - have at least one attribute which qualifies as "unprivileged." I'm not falling back on a...
Let's do neither, sound good? That wasn't my point, but in any case do you think the disabled don't suffer systemic discrimination? Honestly, I think ...
Just something I find a little funny: "Researchers Gurven and Kaplan have estimated that around 57% of hunter-gatherers reach the age of 15. Of those ...
Sure, and we can keep adding qualifiers here: Were these cis white men disabled? Were they trauma victims? Were they ugly? Did they come from single p...
I think an interesting question to ask ourselves here is whether this flourishing is more aimed towards the community (or mankind as a whole) or with ...
I think we were thinking about cooperation in different senses. Neither of us is wrong here - the word can be used in a few different ways. Usually wh...
I don't mean to ignore the first part of your response - it's just we're mostly in agreement. I don't think my ambivalence towards competition comes f...
This is an interesting way of putting it. I think I agree. I think cooperation often comes down to rational self-interest, and actors within a free ma...
I'd be interested in learning more about bankruptcy laws. With Benkei, I was more responding to his idea that the employee ought to have more of share...
When you get fired your compensation stops. Sure, that sucks but you're not actually in the hole for anything. An example of employees having a direct...
When I was a kid I remember falling on my bike a few times - probably from going too fast - and scraping my knee. Pain can help someone learn their li...
The philosopher is interested in being right, while the entrepreneur is interested in what works. The philosopher doesn't really face consequences for...
By "morality" do you mean just any code of morals or... a good code of morals? Regardless, we definitely have physiological drives that inform moral b...
There's a multitude of philosophical beliefs about morality. Morality is just the topic. The existence of objective morality is a philosophical positi...
We can talk about morality in different ways - one of which is as a philosophical concept. There's a ton of different ways to approach the topic. No, ...
No, if people were purely going by the inner logic then there would not be the same observable outcomes. People in real life often just aren't logical...
In regard to the OP, I would want to hear the context of the statement. Wasn't he talking in regard to the US's approach to international affairs (i.e...
They're arresting the black mask crew. And that's the thing about the black masks causing millions of dollars in property damage and embracing violenc...
I know. I've said twice now that a nihilist may very well be a good person. We may live in a universe where nihilists are even, on average, better beh...
At the end of the day the theistic moral realist has a God to answer to and believes he will be judged by actual, objective standards. He has skin in ...
I agree with everything you wrote here. A nihilist could be a perfectly moral person. I just think that an intellectually honest nihilist should have ...
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