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The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson
Amazing insight into democracy, and why we all have a vote, it's nothing to do with the right to vote although you do have that, it's so that the whole process taps into the the social morality.
You see, another interesting thing that Dr Jordan B Peterson said was would you marry yourself? If there was an opposite-sex version of you, would you consider that opposite as a life partner? You would know all of their character flaws, their foibles, their fetishes and other deeply hidden defects. Of the few people I've asked all have said no!
And from that comes the idea that every single politician is just a normal human being same as you and me, and they have the same deeply hidden character flaws. So you need the checks and balances of the people the population as a whole with its voting ability...
Not 100% sure is relevant but it paints a nice picture. If you have the jar of sweets stall at the local fete and you are asked to guess the number of sweets in the jar, then I understand people have recorded all of the answers and averaging them out, it comes out at the correct answer. Consider that with the population voting, then the populations answer is correct!
Amazing insight into democracy, and why we all have a vote, it's nothing to do with the right to vote although you do have that, it's so that the whole process taps into the the social morality.
You see, another interesting thing that Dr Jordan B Peterson said was would you marry yourself? If there was an opposite-sex version of you, would you consider that opposite as a life partner? You would know all of their character flaws, their foibles, their fetishes and other deeply hidden defects. Of the few people I've asked all have said no!
And from that comes the idea that every single politician is just a normal human being same as you and me, and they have the same deeply hidden character flaws. So you need the checks and balances of the people the population as a whole with its voting ability...
Not 100% sure is relevant but it paints a nice picture. If you have the jar of sweets stall at the local fete and you are asked to guess the number of sweets in the jar, then I understand people have recorded all of the answers and averaging them out, it comes out at the correct answer. Consider that with the population voting, then the populations answer is correct!