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250. The Adventures of Pinocchio and Free Speech Part 3/4

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Power of Individual Thought

The ability to abstractly represent the world and then generate avatars that can be defeated without you dying is dependent on your incorporation of a multitude of opinions. So I can't see how you can deny the centrality of free speech as a fundamental right or the fundamental right, perhaps, unless you simultaneously deny the utility of thought. And so it's the uppermost expression of personhood, the ability to have the words that you should speak reveal themselves to you.

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