flitter
20d ago
Is the "symbolically true" position (lobsterifically or otherwise) a separate thing from these or is it vacuous and not worth categorizing?
The idea that religion metaphors contain deep truth that cann't be said straightforwardly for whatever reason. Rhymes with that the purpose of fiction to tell deeper truths than reality. Something zen idk.
Peterson himself seems closer to a 3, when he's talking about "marxist assault on traditional modes of being"
the clause about transitive outlaw-ness complicates that. If my crazy friend Bob starts raving that he's driving over to settle this presidential outlaw business himself and I try to restrain him am I fair game now?
If the supreme court declares Donald Trump an outlaw tomorrow morning, I can picture some plausible cases where a suburban grampa has political disagreements with someone in the house, a physical struggle starts, then a gun gets pulled, and someone dies in a "legal murder"
In these extreme cases some violence across the nation is maybe impossible to avoid, but it doesn't need to be sanctified.
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