#WarOnGod There is no denying it.
Which combatant has the best moral values?
For instance, which side is homophobic and misogynous, and which is the one who believes in full equality?
Which side should win?
Oops. A moral question that scares believers away.
Regards
DL
Peter Robinson: Hold on, I wanna give you, I'm going to put you in a guest's company here. That's you, here's GK Chesterton.
The declaration of independence bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal. There is no basis for democracy except in the divine origin of man. So these are very similar thoughts. And the notion here is that if that we can't do science without some notion, am I allowed to call it the divine? That's just say it's the Judaeo-Christian-
Jordan Peterson: No, no, the divine's fine. We could define that technically too.
Peter Robinson: Oh, can you? All right, that might get us off a slightly uncomfortable hook here, talking about icky stuff like religion.
But so if we can't do science without a notion of the divine, can we engage in self-government?
Jordan Peterson: No, no, no. Well, one of the things I've been talking to my audience about is this right to free speech and how that might be conceptualized. 'Cause you can think about it as a right among other rights, let's say. So it's just one of a list of rights. And you can also think of rights as being granted to you, let's say in some sense, by the social contract. And so a, which is a different theory say than the notion that rights originate in some underlying religious insistence of the divine value of the individual. The problem with the right, there's a bunch of problems with the rights among other rights argument. I don't think free speech is a right among other rights. I think that, I don't think there's any difference between free speech and thought, and it has to be free, because if it's not free, it's not thought.
So imagine mostly you have to think about hard things because why think, otherwise, if everything's going alright, you don't have a problem. When you have a problem, you have to think. And if you have a problem, the thinking is gonna be troublesome because you're gonna think things that upset yourself and upset other people. It's part of the necessity, it's part of what will necessarily happen if you're thinking.
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