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Jordan Peterson: Tragedy Vs Evil | Personal Development

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Is There a Way to Distinguish the Tragic Conditions of Existence From Evil?

I would say, with regard to tragedy. Humans are vulnerable, and that's tragic. But if tragedy is the price we pay for existence, then so be it. And so tragedy itself, which is merely a revelation of our vulnerability, can't be regarded as evil. It's just it's a condition of existence. As far as i am concerned, evil is more pernicious than that which is generated, for example, by social inequality. To make a jokeof a situation that catastrophic indicates the kind of malevolence that lurks behind the fact that such a condition exists. The motto on the gates of oshwit bliee in the second world war, work will

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