Yes, it's easy to do fact-checking on Peterson's nonsensical claims (I've done it myself), but Peterson's project is not a scientific one, so it doesn't matter in the end. All this vitriol directed at a guy giving decent life advice seems completely out of proportion to me.
And what if people who are less capable actually derive *more* benefit from doing a good thing sporadically than capable people do from doing it perfectly
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that'd be ok if that was the case. show me the evidence.
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You're asking for evidence that cultivating good behavior that requires a certain amount of effort is good for people?
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first of all, i'm asking for evidence that the various self-help suggestions peterson gives are good. then i'd like evidence that individuals who are less able to do these good things benefit more from doing them than those people for whom the actions come naturally.
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It would be idiotic to come up with an evidence based theory of morality based on social psych research given that hardly anything ever replicates. My point is that you're demanding evidence for the fundamentals of nearly all virtue ethics with the implication that anyone who
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advocates any sort of cultivation of virtue to people of various levels of ability is, by definition, a charlatan. That's nonsensical.
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i didn't say anything about peterson being a charlatan. he prolly believes what he says. i'm saying that anyone who gives blanket advice to all is simply giving bad advice, because human biodiversity.
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Yeah, you're arguing that cultivating virtue is pointless because everything is genetically determined. So messy people should just not bother cleaning up and parents shouldn't discipline their children. This is obviously much more logical than Peterson's outlandish advice.
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Oh, and everyone should try and watch as much porn as possible to lower rape rates.
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