I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
Interpretation
This quote explores the factors that lead people to commit extreme actions based on their beliefs.
Jordan Peterson's quote delves into the complex motivations that drive individuals to engage in harmful or violent acts in the name of their ideologies. It suggests a need to understand the psychological and social influences that can transform ordinary people into participants of extreme behavior, raising important questions about morality, identity, and the impact of belief systems on human actions.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion on the ethics of activism.
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.
What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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