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359. Separating Good from Evil in the British Empire | Dr. Nigel Biggar

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Importance of Speaking the Truth

Jonah's escape from Nineveh is so interesting psychologically because what it implies is that if you are called upon to say something to set things right even at the social level and you don't the storms are going to rise around you. I can't help but think about that in light of the rise of totalitarian states in the 20th century because people in totalitarian states lied to each other and to themselves 100% of the time and that's why they ended up in hell. If Jonah would have permanently abandoned his ethical responsibility to say what he was called upon to says an entire city would have been devastated, which is a hell of a good lesson for the current times. Why are some people so

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