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People prefer to not need to do that.

The way that CPI inflation is calculated accounts for spending pattern changes already, including mortgage/rent. If you don't have a nuanced critique of the CPI calculation method,…

The sociological data regarding being raised by a single parent is out there. It is extremely clear that it correlates with a number of negative outcomes. You being offended by thi…

You continue to state that market forces are bad, while not paying any attention to the counterargument that they are pretty good compared to the alternatives. Making an honest com…

Buying drugs online. Sending money to venezuela. Keeping millions of dollars untouched by intermediaries by memorizing a secret phrase and deleting all other records.

To me, it seems like man's constant fight against the brutality of mother nature will never end. As long as we need food, need medicine, and entropy destroys what we create, we wil…

You were not incorrect to say they are a minority. Nobody factually disputed you on this detail. However, other folks added relevant details to show the prevalence of fun ownership…

You are explicitly mischaracterizing his arguments. Peterson has spent more time than you or I arguing about the pros and cons of patriarchal hierarchies. The fact that he is willi…

To clarify my point on the slavery example- Slavery was present for hundreds or thousands of years. It was also obviously morally wrong for the entirety of it's existence. It's dec…

I think there are obvious cases where passive moral conformists (which you would argue are at the bottom of PG's rankings) are a net good in the world. PG doesn't spend any time hi…

Many people intentionally mischaracterize Peterson as intolerant. His position is generally extremely open-minded and comes from the position of a psychologist that has seen the fa…

I think the exercise of considering which historical atrocities you would passively comply with is a good exercise for understanding the banality of evil. PG did little to argue hi…

Using a slur does does not "require malintent by definition". Slurs can be used as terms of endearment, within jokes, etc.