Opinion: If you want to show that Jordan Peterson is wrong, you need to publish his book

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[–]SnowAssMan 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No, it's more like saying: Mr. Finkledor failed his PhD, so why is he giving PhD advice? Or: Finkledor is critical of everything that isn't a conspiracy theory.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's the part that I don't buy: just because you failed to do something doesn't mean you can't give valid advice. Peterson could have valid advice in his book then not follow it himself.

Why do you think there are fat P.E. and health teachers?

[–]SnowAssMan 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So if someone follows an ideology that is wrong about everything & that same person gives advice to people on how to live their life, but ends up in rehab after accruing success from their scam--I mean self-help book, what said person has to say is somehow still valuable?

The thing about traditionalism is that we are all intimately familiar with it already. We are all taught it all the time. There is no need of a teacher. We can already guess that he has issues with Tinder & believes that monogamy & the nuclear family are what our aims ought to be, because that's just textbook traditionalism. Traditionalism – the ideology that doesn't require a text book.

P.S. P.E. teachers? You probably meant to say: coaches.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't read the book, so I cannot comment on it.

P.S. I meant to say what I said.