Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?

[bennyboy]

So my insecurities cause people to take sick days off and not bring a sick note as per the terms of the contract?  My insecurities cause a teacher to get tilted because other teachers had left books on her desk?  My insecurities made a teacher lie in the health disclosure form required by Korean law?

I'm not projecting onto these situations, though Tiz can certainly choose to  believe I'm lying or embellishing if he wants to.  My insecurities are FROM these kinds of interactions-- because no matter how well I teach, no matter how hard I work or how fairly I try to run my business, I'm always one or two unlucky hiring decisions away from watching it all get shit on because someone thinks they aren't getting enough personal attention.

Like Khem said  insecurities

I still don't understand why this argument is being made.  Is it that because I'm insecure, I'm acting out in a bigoted way?  That I'm projecting my own moral or psychological weaknesses onto others?

If so, fair enough.  That's what all people do in varying ways and degrees.  But in the end, it doesn't matter.  I DO have feelings about life and about people.  And if people want me to endorse, support, or even care about them, I'm going to have either to WANT to do that, or be FORCED to do that.

I will want to do that if I get enough positive reinforcement from my efforts to do so.  I will be forced to do it if through legislation, a government of the people carries sufficient threat to my wellbeing that it's worth it.

Right now, it's apparent that there's so much hostility that the former is never going to happen.  I do not like people like you, or your ideas, and there's not enough positive reinforcement (even in the form of intellectual interest) in interacting with you to be anything but unpleasant.  I have no interest in supporting you in any endeavor at this point.  I wouldn't hold a sign in your rally, I wouldn't sign a petition on behalf of you.  You've been so consistently hostile that I probably wouldn't risk getting my new sneakers wet to save you from drowning in a mud puddle.  To be frank, I feel that way about a lot of people, probably because evolution has arrived at me being almost perfectly adapted to fuckface assholery, and I'm 100% sure that you feel the same way about me.

As for being forced-- well, time will tell.  I think it's perfectly possible that all sorts of thought crimes will be legislated, and that you won't be able to say 10 words without some fucker jumping out of the woodwork pointing a finger.  It's also possible that I'll tell someone what I really think about them, and I'll get sued and made to apologize.  But for the most part, if I don't feel I want to participate in a culture I think is both needy and psychotic, I don't have to.