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This doesn't make sense to me. But isn't there a difference between senior engineer and jail? Are you saying we should have no input on how children grow up or society behaves because some eugenics people picked the idea up once? Why must we be afraid of _everything_ the eugenicists _ever said_. Can't people sometimes have even a single good idea? I'm not in favor of eugenics at all. But social conduct and manners? That sociology, social psychology, we should grow away anything from any field that has ever been touched by _bad people_?

When i was younger the things Jordan Peterson said actually helped me. This whole "Reverse Midas Touch" thing is getting really out of hand. Just because a person has had bad ideas, doesn't make the person bad or require destruction of every idea they've ever held or spoken. Just because a group of racist and ignorant people held bad beliefs, doesn't mean every possible belief they held was bad and must be destroyed. This whole argument is just, "but the bad people thought that so it must be bad too", without ever establishing what's actually bad about it. Tell me what's wrong with the ideas without mentioning a group of bad people, tell me about why the ideas are bad. Tell me about the people who "manners and proper behavior" has hurt, and then explain to me why it can't possibly be different. Speak about the ideas, not the people. Everyone knows why those people were bad. Now tell me about the ideas




I genuinely appreciate your engagement but this exact thing is what I was trying to avoid as a time suck.

This type of literature has been a hobby of mine for years and recently I've noticed that I've given myself some expertise.

Hopefully I'll be motivated to write a more complete volume in the future. It takes many pages to build proper context here.

Thanks. I've read your reply but I'm trying to be judicious with my time these days.




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