Jordan Peterson: Free Speech & the Right to Offend

go on he's being sensitive to offense such a problem oh look we would have previously called that manners it's a terrible problem so imagine you know imagine you okay so the rule is you can't offend anyone all right let's say you're speaking to one person I can't offend you all right fair enough what if I'm speaking to ten people do I get to offend one in ten how about one in a hundred how about one in a thousand you're going to come out on stage and you're gonna say something important about something vital and you're not going to offend one person in a thousand well you can't say anything about anything important ever without offending probably the person you're talking to in important speech about important issues especially contentious issues is instantly offensive but there are ways that you can share I guess provocative views where you attempt to still do that internet with an air of say respectfulness where you're trying to mitigate against the offensiveness this is true yeah you can actually try listening when you're when you're having a conversation right assuming that both people who are having the conversation are of goodwill and they're not trying to play tricks and they're struggling towards the truth which neither of them hold completely and both understand that yeah you can reach across fairly large gaps and negotiate peace thank God for that or we'd be at each other's throats all the time we'll say the example of there is some transgender people who want to not be referred to as he or she that prefer to be called Z or they if somebody wants to be addressed like that what does it cost me to do that it's hard to tell because it the devil is always in the details but as far as I'm concerned that's that situation is it's it's not relevant to the issues for example that I was involved in I didn't care if transgender people want it to be called by some pronouns like whatever that's something for individuals to negotiate when the when the government makes that a compulsion and insists in their legislation that biological sex gender identity gender expression and sexual proclivity vary independently it's like no they don't that's wrong factually and you're not going to compel my speech I don't care what your damn justification is so you see that as am i right in that you see that is a curtailing of freedom it's worse than a curtailing of freedom it's a demand that the population uses a certain kind of linguistic approach it's a it's an appropriation of speech there's no excuse for that that never has happened once in the history of English common law right it's a barrier that we do not cross hate speech laws are bad enough it's not like there's no hate speech like anyone with any sense knows that there's hate speech who's gonna regulate it who's gonna define it I know the answer to that the last people in the world you would want to and then we crossed another barrier and we allow the government to compel speech for some hypothetically compassionate reason no way that's a really bad idea

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Id: 44pERGAaKHw

Length: 2min 52sec (172 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 15 2018