"If you CAN bite, you generally don't HAVE to. When skillfully integrated, the ability to respond with aggression and violence decreases rather than increases the probability that actual aggression will become necessary" - Jordan Peterson - 12 rules for life

I'm reading 12 rules for life and this statement really stood out with the discussion about arming teachers to protect our kids.

Who?

I like it

one of his more famous recent interviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

What's a teaccher?

Yeah, there's a lot in there that's relevant.

He talks about recognizing that all the horrible things people have done in history, were done by people, who were just like you. I think that's an important observation in these discussions, people don't believe what happened in Germany, or the USSR, or Mao's China, or a dozen other places in the last 100 years, can happen here. People can't think like a killer, because they hide that part of themselves from themselves. 20 people get killed with an AR and it's the AR they're afraid of.

Any adult male could force a school bus, kill the driver and all the kids with a framing hammer. Ability isn't the problem. I don't think most of these killers stop because they run out of ability, I think most of them run out of will.

Lol

it was an enjoyable watch

Have you cleaned your room OP?

yes sir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBR5v89L6gk