Schindler v N95 masks
And the replies are taking this completely seriously.
Right, because rules to avoid contagion during a pandemic are exactly the same as Nazi genocide.
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And the replies are taking this completely seriously.
Right, because rules to avoid contagion during a pandemic are exactly the same as Nazi genocide.
Well, they said having to wear a mask was like having to wear a yellow star…or something like that. False equivalency is in full bloom in the modern political, social, and medical world.
He’s right, though. People do tend to overestimate their immunity to creeping authoritarianism and where it leads.
Sounds like someone who saw Schindler’s List, but hasn’t read The Banality of Evil. Maybe he did read it and forgot, who knows.
The rest of it is a ridiculous false analogy by a disgruntled anti-vaxxer. Covid was not a moral issue. Maybe he didn’t have a friend or two who died from it. I did however, and some of us took it very seriously.
I thought Peterson was a pretty smart guy before he became so political and silly. I still agree with him about compelled speech, and some of his more simplistic moral positions, but his musings have become more bizarre over time. I’d like to see him justify his all meat diet from a moral standpoint. Yeah, good luck with that.
If Peterson had wanted to assert the truism that people ‘tend to overestimate their immunity to creeping authoritarianism and where it leads’, he could surely have done so. It is very simple to do so, as you, Nullius, have demonstrated. The point that is being criticised is the comparison between ’Nxzi’ (?) informers and those ‘informers’ who, he is claiming, informed on, say, Boris Johnson’s parties solely because of the ’thrill’ of ‘moral superiority’ that it gave them. The comparison is typical of the disingenuous rubbish that people like Peterson trade in. He should look in the mirror and recognise the sense of moral superiority that so obviously drives him. How the man preens & flatters himself!