Jordan B. Peterson
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An a priori axiomatic sense.
Independent of your culture, independent of your training, independent of your motivations, if you participated in that, that crime against humanity, that was wrong.
And there's an implication there of a cosmic wrong, right?
Well, something has to respond.
Like, why else is it wrong?
There's some implication there.
The concept of wrong itself has something about unfortunate suffering as part and parcel of it.
And people can dispense with that and say, well, that's all nonsense.
It's so easy for you to dispense with the Nuremberg judgment, is it?
Because that's not an easy thing to do.
It's not an elegy.
Okay, so it's not an elegy.
Maybe it can be an elegy and be something deeper than that as well.
Here's one thing you might contemplate.
So reality is that to which you must adapt.
Let's make that generalization.
It's a definitional generalization.
And then you might ask, well, what's the best way to live?
And then you might say, well, to manifest a personality rooted in love.
That is the best way to live.