Giving and taking offense: when is each appropriate?

The person who says a thing should be banned or avoided because it might be offensive is a liar.  He or she will be the first to justify giving offense to those he or she deems evil.  The person who says a thing should be banned or avoided because it is offensive is a person…

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Fairness is a unicorn

There is no such thing as fair.  Or, if there is, we cannot possibly achieve it in this mortal life.  To create a perfectly fair, just, or equitable arrangement between two parties would require perfect knowledge of both parties and the values of all factors affecting both parties.  Only God has such knowledge.  The rest…

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Is there such a thing as normal?

You’ve heard it said that there is no such thing as normal.  But you’ve also heard the word normal used regularly in conversation, and you’ve used it yourself, which means it has some kind of useful definition—useful even to you.  If normal doesn’t exist, then what do you mean when you use the word? If…

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IQ and anger

Jordan Peterson apparently once said that angry people demonstrate lower IQ, or something to that effect.  I didn’t hear him say it; I only know this much because I once observed a man to complain that he occasionally experienced anger, and to his mind Jordan Peterson was saying he was less intelligent for that reason,…

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