2/...if there’s virtue to be pursued it’s impossible due to the configuration of current societies (even if we pursue it alone or in small groups, we’ll never really know). So, being a “good man” for Peterson boils down to paying your taxes, starting a family, not being addicted.
12/...when Peterson says that hierarchies of a liberal meritcoratic sort have led to great improvements in living stands etc., he is not different to the Soviet commissar saying that industrialisation and electrification was worth a few million deaths.
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13/ My point is that liberalism is inconsistent and ultimately cannot defend itself against the left, which is why...you get fascism which is, to an extent, classical liberalism in a state of emergency.
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14/ It’s only the non-liberal left and the hard right who are consistent in this matter, although the left promises what it cannot deliver (an end to all murderousness).
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