Ukraine's Interior Minister announces that 10,000 automatic rifles have been handed out to the civilians of Kyiv. This is unacceptable. Civilians have no reason to possess assault rifles.
I detect sarcasm. Is this supposed to be a rejoinder to my other recent article's criticism of the conservative's stance against gun control?
Who says the Ukrainian people are still civilians when they're at war and their country is being invaded? That's quite different from a citizenry's having hundreds of millions of guns in peacetime.
And if they had the guns at the ready, they might have had many more peacetime deaths from gunshots, like in the US.
Switzerland does seem to have weak gun regulations and few gun-related deaths. But do you think Switzerland's armed citizenry could fend off a Russian invasion? What does a gun do against a tank or against vacuum bombs?
Really good essay. I'm not very familiar with Jorden Peterson's thoughts, but I resonate with your critique.
I think that terrible burden that Peterson speaks of would be easier to bear if we did suffer foolishly. The real suffering is, as you pointed out near the end, compromising with the world as it is. If we fully committed ourselves to the kind of foolish suffering that Jesus engaged in, we'd actually suffer less quantitatively because we likely wouldn't live very long, but it's quality would be different as well, since we'd be suffering for a higher purpose, such as the Kingdom of God.
But that's the rub. To avoid compromising with the world as it is, you need a convincing vision of the world as it should be. It simply isn't enough to recognize something is wrong -- almost everyone can see that. You need to be utterly convinced that a better world exists or could exist. This leap of faith wasn't so far in Jesus' day, but within a modern context it looks like a chasm.
Anon, the question is: how responsibly would the Ukranians behave if they had firearms. Would they be like the Swiss or more like Americans? What works in Switzerland wouldn't necessarily work elsewhere.
Thanks. And I try to point out in the article that idealism also conflicts with social Darwinism and with evolutionary psychology.
Mind you, I suppose Peterson takes the primary ideals to be Jungian archetypes which in turn are reduced to being evolutionary instincts or mental programs. If all ideals reduce to those primary myths and models, there could be no leap of faith. We'd just be expressing our animal nature in trying to force the world to conform to our innate preferences.
I admire you for wasting your time reading this subhuman's bullshit, but many idiot whites, and other races, follow this guy as if his words were wisdom.
The vast majority of them are conservatards, of course.
Ukraine's Interior Minister announces that 10,000 automatic rifles have been handed out to the civilians of Kyiv. This is unacceptable. Civilians have no reason to possess assault rifles.
ReplyDeleteI detect sarcasm. Is this supposed to be a rejoinder to my other recent article's criticism of the conservative's stance against gun control?
DeleteWho says the Ukrainian people are still civilians when they're at war and their country is being invaded? That's quite different from a citizenry's having hundreds of millions of guns in peacetime.
If they had the guns at the ready, they would not need to waste time "handing them out." Switzerland has an armed citizenry for this exact reason.
DeleteAnd if they had the guns at the ready, they might have had many more peacetime deaths from gunshots, like in the US.
DeleteSwitzerland does seem to have weak gun regulations and few gun-related deaths. But do you think Switzerland's armed citizenry could fend off a Russian invasion? What does a gun do against a tank or against vacuum bombs?
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. - Hillary Clinton
ReplyDeleteReally good essay. I'm not very familiar with Jorden Peterson's thoughts, but I resonate with your critique.
ReplyDeleteI think that terrible burden that Peterson speaks of would be easier to bear if we did suffer foolishly. The real suffering is, as you pointed out near the end, compromising with the world as it is. If we fully committed ourselves to the kind of foolish suffering that Jesus engaged in, we'd actually suffer less quantitatively because we likely wouldn't live very long, but it's quality would be different as well, since we'd be suffering for a higher purpose, such as the Kingdom of God.
But that's the rub. To avoid compromising with the world as it is, you need a convincing vision of the world as it should be. It simply isn't enough to recognize something is wrong -- almost everyone can see that. You need to be utterly convinced that a better world exists or could exist. This leap of faith wasn't so far in Jesus' day, but within a modern context it looks like a chasm.
Anon, the question is: how responsibly would the Ukranians behave if they had firearms. Would they be like the Swiss or more like Americans? What works in Switzerland wouldn't necessarily work elsewhere.
Thanks. And I try to point out in the article that idealism also conflicts with social Darwinism and with evolutionary psychology.
DeleteMind you, I suppose Peterson takes the primary ideals to be Jungian archetypes which in turn are reduced to being evolutionary instincts or mental programs. If all ideals reduce to those primary myths and models, there could be no leap of faith. We'd just be expressing our animal nature in trying to force the world to conform to our innate preferences.
I admire you for wasting your time reading this subhuman's bullshit, but many idiot whites, and other races, follow this guy as if his words were wisdom.
ReplyDeleteThe vast majority of them are conservatards, of course.