I'm not willing to fight for whichever is their best song.
Lucem Ferre
08-21-2019 12:47 PM
I love this for 3 reasons.
1) I like watching Jordan Peterson get talked into a corner and the ridiculous, yet creative, lengths he goes to defend, or avoid defending, nonsensical stances. I often times don't know if he truly believes the stance (since he'll talk himself into circle to avoid having to answer that) and tries to use logic to back claims he just wants to believe or if he's just trying to make more conservative ideas seem logical to appeal to the more conservative fan base that has driven him into stardom. Either way he's clearly upset and intimidated the way he's shaking in it.
2) Matt completely reflects my beliefs on free will.
3) Matt believes that morality is a selfish trait which kind of makes me feel validated in my belief that empathy and compassion are narcissistic traits because we only feel empathy and compassion towards things that remind us of ourselves in someway. I'm an irrationally insecure man, I like feeling validated.
jwb
08-21-2019 02:11 PM
It's not selfish. That's a misnomer. Unless you define your "self" by the collective interests of your individual genes.
Lucem Ferre
08-21-2019 02:16 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by elphenor
(Post 2073769)
selfish as in it's evolutionarily beneficial to be good?
Selfish as in I wouldn't want this to happen to me so I won't do it to others.
Frownland
08-21-2019 02:19 PM
Self-preservation is more appropriate for what you're describing than selfishness.