A very important way of framing the issue of truth is that truth is like a correct medical diagnosis and lies are like wrong medical diagnoses. It is never acceptable for a doctor to give an incorrect diagnosis to make you feel better, while allowing you to get worse and perhaps die. Truth is the same thing but about all the problems in society and human life, not just medicine.
Yes, this is basically the top line in what Jordan Peterson is saying right now, "Tell the Truth (or At Least Don't Lie). Faced with encroaching tyranny, it's hard to know exactly where do you personally stick your neck out, at risk of becoming the target. But if all of us make a commitment to never being the conduit through which a lie is inserted into the public consciousness, and what's more, to always speak the truth as we know it, and ideally, make a point of refuting things that we know to be lies with truth, then we can at least know that we are doing our part, and, the more of us who do this, the more the lies begin to crumble away.
A very important way of framing the issue of truth is that truth is like a correct medical diagnosis and lies are like wrong medical diagnoses. It is never acceptable for a doctor to give an incorrect diagnosis to make you feel better, while allowing you to get worse and perhaps die. Truth is the same thing but about all the problems in society and human life, not just medicine.
Yes, this is basically the top line in what Jordan Peterson is saying right now, "Tell the Truth (or At Least Don't Lie). Faced with encroaching tyranny, it's hard to know exactly where do you personally stick your neck out, at risk of becoming the target. But if all of us make a commitment to never being the conduit through which a lie is inserted into the public consciousness, and what's more, to always speak the truth as we know it, and ideally, make a point of refuting things that we know to be lies with truth, then we can at least know that we are doing our part, and, the more of us who do this, the more the lies begin to crumble away.