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Mark Steyn and Jordan Peterson discuss some of the dire ramifications of the legal, authoritarian butchery of language. Imposed speech laws have already been passed in Canada and England, and the same sorts of inane things are being proposed in United States.

LibertyPen video (12 mins):
"Mark Steyn, Jordan Peterson - Accepting the Language of Authoritarians"

Wordmage 8 Mar 6
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This whole topic could never even be seriously entertained if we'd just fix the tragically-dysfunctional and corrupted institutions of Western "education"; and teach our kids the truth about their own culture once again.

Government has one legitimate domestic purpose: to protect individuals' rights from one another.
Accordingly, it can legitimately make you not do something that would violate someone's rights... it cannot legitimately make you do anything.
You can't violate anybody's rights by not doing something, which means that your inaction... and any implications of that inaction, fall entirely outside the purview of legitimate Government Force.

That implies a broader principle that I believe to be axiomatic, of which Government-compelled speech is just one specific example. That is:
Just Law Can Only Restrict Actions

Compelled Action, of any sort... (not just speech), violates that principle.
The Government can legitimately prevent you from, or punish you for, taking some action that would violate somebody else's rights. Solely because it would violate somebody else's rights.
And it does so only through due process established by consent of the governed themselves, and initiated by your actions... not at the discretion of the State itself.
But, it has no legitimate authority to Force you to take some action... any action, that you otherwise have no desire to take.

There is not even any sense in discussing it further, and wasting everybody's time, energy, and attention on a subject that is easily resolved at first glance.
That's what principles are for!
That's exactly why we have axiomatic principles, so we don't have to rehash the same tired, bad ideas every time some ignoramus thinks that they just thought of something that was somehow "missed" during centuries of cultural evolution into the the most-prosperous, most-free, and most-just Civilization in the history of History.

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Language, words, are important. Otherwise they would not bother to change them.

Remember, they don't things for no reason.

I had forgotten how much I like Jordan Peterson. I have always been more interested in his lectures than the politics but I suppose that is just because I don't like battles. I'm interested in ideas not action.

@Genghis

People like me are "designed" to sacrifice our own fitness for the groups. We don't have children or physical wealth. Most of us live wasted lives because new ideas are hardly ever right and even if they are hardly ever adopted. Warriors can be of a similar sort but they operate in the physical space. There are also idea warriors but you will find that they are seldom original. It is just the nature of reality that change requires "error" mutations. Most unavoidably non adaptive. Too many misfits and you have chaos, not enough and you become stagnant. Right now everyone wants to be a misfit but few can fight biology and will settle into some form of normalcy. In other words mental aberrations are necessary but undesirable. Original thinkers are not "nice" people and can be dangerous. That is part of what Peterson means when he says you have to be dangerous but his biology caught up with him, he is a nice person.

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If anyone else is interested it is a 2017 video.

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