Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion

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The problem is what he means by forced/enforced. If this is a standard term used in psychology or some other field, then I'll happily drop my objection and reconsider the whole situation. If however this is Peterson making up his own jargon, then it's woefully ambiguous, and I would say misleading. If you asked 100 people on the street what "enforced monogamy" meant, I would expect at least 99 to come up with something far more gruesome than "our kind of society, the one we already live in, where monogamy is encouraged".

It shows what a pointless point it is, that he thinks the solution is for things to stay the same.

(Edit: sure, some other societies are not like this, and maybe he's just talking about those)

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PS: why is this only viewed from a male position, anyway? If women could have as many husbands as they wanted to match up with the men in (whatever country), then surely that's just as fair as monogamy.

That's not what he's talking about anyway though, because he's talking about what society encourages, not enforces. So it can't be marriage. It must be relationships in general.