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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Harm in Words That Do Harm?

The idea that words do harm to people is based on an absurdly inflated conception of harm. If you mandate speech on one thing, it's going to be mandated on other things the next day. With any form of coercive, coercive principle, you need to think what's going to happen in the hands of somebody wicked and tyrannical. That's how we should think about these things, not only in university but in politics more generally.

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