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292. The Language of Creation | Matthieu Pageau
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is Compulsion a Cardinal Error?
I've been touring with this notion is that one of the hallmarks of inappropriate public policy is the use of compulsion. If you have to use compulsion to impose your vision of paradise, then it's not an adequate vision of paradise. It isn't motivating and it isn't integrated. And so when our politicians are doing things like driving up the cost of energy so that people who are poor will suffer so that their vision of utopia can be brought in hastily, it seems to me that they're committing this same cardinal error. I think today we want to create a totalitarian government or a world government or whatever we want to call it.
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