
The Importance of Being Ethical, with Jordan Peterson
Uncommon Knowledge
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What's the Difference Between Speech and Thought?
There is no difference between speech and thought, if you free thought, you must have free speech. We use a mechanism that's sociologically constructed the world of speech to organize our own psyches. What people generally do instead of that is talk to other people. And then the reason you have the right to free speech isn't so that you can just say whatever you want to gain a hedonistic advantage. It's like, it's a hedonic freedom.
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