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

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@Benny: Sure, there are bound to many things I do agree with him on. It's just as stupid to try to disagree with everything someone says as to be a cultish follower, like my brother has become, ugh.

This book just happens to be a collection of all his very worst ideas, positions and ugliness of character. I can't believe he says that smacking children is not always enough. I dread to think what he escalates to. I'm sure he will have a weasel back-talk way of dismissing his own comment if he ever gets called on it in interview.

Has your opinion of him changed over this discussion? Of course I don't expect you to go from thinking he's really good to awful, but just to see that he has a darker and dishonest side.

I'm not bothered by ugliness in people.  Many of the people considered great have deep ugliness about them-- maybe all of them.

Bill Cosby, for example, was a comic genius and a monstrous rapist.  Being one of those things, at least in my view, didn't make him less of the other.  I'd argue that many of the confederate leaders were great men, though slavery of innocents must be one of the greatest evils man might commit.

Sure, I agree with that. I probably worded the question badly. Let me instead ask if you're surprised by the contents of this book.