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The Necessity of Aim

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - What's Real?

If you're not sure that one way of looking at the world is better than another, well, then you don't have an aim. This is partly why i'e laid emphasis, to a large degree, in 12 rules for life, on suffering. It's damn hard to argue yourself out of pain. And ther is malevolence. I think malevolence is the willingness or the desire to produce pain when that's unnecessary. You can destroy that rationally, but the pain and the misery and the malevolence remains. Then what happens is that you suffer without hope of respite. That makes you cruel and bitter and vengeful. None of that seems to be

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