Fair enough. Obviously, once good people are back in power, it would be easy enough to sort out loopholes and make it harder for this kind of thing to happen going forward.
But how would you propose to correct the problem in the short-term without stooping to their level or caving to their demands? Having JP move to the US / out of Canada seems to me to just be running away from the problem rather than meeting it head on.
Well, he’d be bringing business there as well, so it’s also a gesture toward Canada. Kind of like what happens in the free market but at the level of nation states. Peterson is rich enough not to be too severely inconvenienced by this.
Short-term solutions should partially be stoicism at the individual level, accompanied by an international support group. If we form stronger bonds and aim to take our world back, it’ll be bearable to suffer losses in the here and now, because friendship with other people with integrity remind us that it was correct not to stoop.
It can be seen as a test. Basically, the Christian model of taking up one’s cross and welcoming persecution is the right one. I’m just talking about Christian values, by the way, and not about a literal understanding of the gospel. God can be taken to represent higher ideals in general. We should believe in those and be willing to make sacrifices for them.
LarrySwinger@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
The problem is that you’re stooping to their level if you do that. The noble thing to do is to stay above it.
ihatetroons@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
Fair enough. Obviously, once good people are back in power, it would be easy enough to sort out loopholes and make it harder for this kind of thing to happen going forward.
But how would you propose to correct the problem in the short-term without stooping to their level or caving to their demands? Having JP move to the US / out of Canada seems to me to just be running away from the problem rather than meeting it head on.
LarrySwinger@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
Well, he’d be bringing business there as well, so it’s also a gesture toward Canada. Kind of like what happens in the free market but at the level of nation states. Peterson is rich enough not to be too severely inconvenienced by this.
Short-term solutions should partially be stoicism at the individual level, accompanied by an international support group. If we form stronger bonds and aim to take our world back, it’ll be bearable to suffer losses in the here and now, because friendship with other people with integrity remind us that it was correct not to stoop.
It can be seen as a test. Basically, the Christian model of taking up one’s cross and welcoming persecution is the right one. I’m just talking about Christian values, by the way, and not about a literal understanding of the gospel. God can be taken to represent higher ideals in general. We should believe in those and be willing to make sacrifices for them.