You may have a point here, though having a civil discussion about these things may actually be helpful at times. :) I certainly enjoy the discussions, whether they be on these kinds of topics or on technical or law related subjects. You could check my posts from the past, but unfortunately I can't for the life of me remember my password for the phulshof login, and I think it's still connected to my old phulshof@xs4all.nl email address (which doesn't work anymore).
I'm certainly not a Peterson fanboy, even though I feel what he says makes a lot of sense more often than not. His views are often based on statistics, and it's hard to argue with those, even though we can disagree about the solutions to the perceived problems.
I would agree, and although I often find myself agreeing with what he has to say, I'm not sure that pushing this lawsuit was his best option. Since they're using the same lawyer though, perhaps there's a legal strategy behind this that we're not aware of. From what I've seen, in spite of her not agreeing with his views when this whole debacle started, they have been contact quite a bit since this incident. We'll have to see how this plays out.
Considering his chances of success in this lawsuit, I think it's more to send out a message to Wilfrid Laurier than to actually make some money from it. He's making a pretty good living as it is, and doesn't strike me as a man who really cares that much about wealth to begin with.
I think the main reason for this lawsuit is that in spite of the promises made by Wilfrid Laurier to prevent this problem from happening in the future, nothing effective has really been done to solve this issue. In stead, Lindsay Shepherd has been harassed to the point where she has now decided to sue. From what I've seen of professor Peterson, his lawsuit is more meant to support hers, and to get Wilfrid Laurier to actually start doing something about the problem than it is to stop the defamation. He does not strike me as the type to feel victimized.
When it comes to freedom of speech though, I do think he has some very valid points, especially when it comes to education. We've all seen the different dramas play out at the schools, with teachers being harassed and fired under pressure of snowflake students, and school boards actually going along with this insanity. The controversies surrounding professor Weinstein and Joshua Sutcliffe are rather fresh on my mind, and they are just two of the many.
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I'm certainly not a Peterson fanboy, even though I feel what he says makes a lot of sense more often than not. His views are often based on statistics, and it's hard to argue with those, even though we can disagree about the solutions to the perceived problems.
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When it comes to freedom of speech though, I do think he has some very valid points, especially when it comes to education. We've all seen the different dramas play out at the schools, with teachers being harassed and fired under pressure of snowflake students, and school boards actually going along with this insanity. The controversies surrounding professor Weinstein and Joshua Sutcliffe are rather fresh on my mind, and they are just two of the many.
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